Climate change and the potential effects on maternal and pregnancy outcomes: An assessment of the most vulnerable - the mother, fetus, and newborn child

Global Health Action

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Rylander, Charlotta ^a   Odland, Jon øyvind ^a   Sandanger, Torkjel Manning ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climate change; Pregnancy outcomes; Reproductive health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY OUTCOMES; PRENATAL CARE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH;

CLIMATE CHANGE; PREGNANCY OUTCOMES; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84880467336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v6i0.19538     Document Type: Review

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