Assessment of climate-sensitive infectious diseases in the Federated States of Micronesia

Tropical Medicine and Health

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 29-40

  McIver, Lachlan ^a,e   Hashizume, Masahiro ^b   Kim, Ho ^c   Honda, Yasushi ^d   Pretrick, Moses ^e   Iddings, Steven ^f   Pavlin, Boris ^f  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^e Department of Health and Social Affairs ^*  (Fiji)

^f WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate; Federated States of Micronesia; Infectious diseases

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSESSMENT; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH HAZARD; INFECTION; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 84925337203     PISSN: 13488945     EISSN: 13494147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2149/tmh.2014-17     Document Type: Article

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