Global climate change

Environmental Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 510-520

  Sari Kovats, R ^a   McMichael, Anthony J ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

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