Climate change and health research: Has it served rural communities?

Rural and Remote Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bell, E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change adaptation; Climate change and health; Climate change policy; Literature meta analysis; Rural health research funding

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; CAPACITY BUILDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; ETHNOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SOCIOLOGY; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

BENCHMARKING; CAPACITY BUILDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HUMANS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; POLICY MAKING; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877910842     PISSN: 14456354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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