Health impacts of climate change in pacific island countries: A regional assessment of vulnerabilities and adaptation priorities

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1707-1714

  McIver, Lachlan ^a,b   Kim, Rokho ^b   Woodward, Alistair ^c   Hales, Simon ^d   Spickett, Jeffery ^e   Katscherian, Dianne ^e   Hashizume, Masahiro ^f   Honda, Yasushi ^g   Kim, Ho ^h   Iddings, Steven ^b   Naicker, Jyotishma ^b   Bambrick, Hilary ⁱ   McMichael, Anthony J ^a   Ebi, Kristie L ^j  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^e CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^h Seoul National University   (South Korea)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DENGUE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALARIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEATHER; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HEALTH SURVEY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84994299060     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1509756     Document Type: Article

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