Climate change and health modeling: Horses for courses

Global Health Action

Volumn 7, Issue SUPP.1, 2014, Pages

  Ebi, Kristie L ^a   Rocklö v, Joacim ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate variability; Health impacts; Modeling; Research needs

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COST OF ILLNESS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COST OF ILLNESS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FORECASTING; HEALTH PLANNING; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLICY MAKING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84904396485     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v7.24154     Document Type: Article

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