Climate change, malaria, and public health: accounting for socioeconomic contexts in past debates and future research

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 551-568

  Suk, Jonathan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MALARIA TRANSMISSION; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIONS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTOR; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MALARIA; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

EID: 84975289301     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.406     Document Type: Review

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