Health coping strategies of the people vulnerable to climate change in a resource-poor rural setting in Bangladesh

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Haque, Md Aminul ^a,b   Budi, Aji ^a   Azam Malik, Ahmad ^c   Suzanne Yamamoto, Shelby ^a   Louis, Valérie R ^a   Sauerborn, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAHORE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Choice of care; Climate sensitive diseases; Health coping strategies; Health expenditure; Health insurance; Resource poor setting in Bangladesh; Unqualified providers

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BANGLADESH; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE COST; HEAT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BANGLADESH; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD TEMPERATURE; DATA COLLECTION; DISEASE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY AREAS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84878715312     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-565     Document Type: Article

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