Planning for climate change: The need for mechanistic systems-based approaches to study climate change impacts on diarrheal diseases

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 548-549, Issue , 2016, Pages 82-90

  Mellor, Jonathan E ^a   Levy, Karen ^b   Zimmerman, Julie ^c   Elliott, Mark ^d   Bartram, Jamie ^e   Carlton, Elizabeth ^f   Clasen, Thomas ^b   Dillingham, Rebecca ^g   Eisenberg, Joseph ^h   Guerrant, Richard ^g   Lantagne, Daniele ⁱ   Mihelcic, James ^j   Nelson, Kara ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

^d The University of Alabama   (United States)

^e IL   (United States)

^f Global Health and Health Disparities   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

ⁱ Tufts University   (United States)

^j University of South Florida   (United States)

^k Berkeley   (United States)

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Author keywords

Climate change; Complex systems; Coupled systems; Diarrhea; Health; Water

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER QUALITY; WEATHER; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; PROCEDURES; SANITATION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DIARRHEA; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMANS; SANITATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 84955277871     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.12.087     Document Type: Note

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