Climate change and human infectious diseases: A synthesis of research findings from global and spatio-temporal perspectives

Environment International

Volumn 103, Issue , 2017, Pages 99-108

  Liang, Lu ^a,b   Gong, Peng ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Disease transmission; Environmental health; Global change; Meta data analysis; Spatial analytics; Warming

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; EARTH (PLANET); LIFE CYCLE; METADATA; TRANSMISSIONS;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GLOBAL CHANGE; SPATIAL ANALYTICS; WARMING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; METADATA; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WARMING;

AIRBORNE INFECTION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EL NINO; EPIDEMIC; FLOODING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; INFECTION; INSECT BORNE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE;

HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS;

EID: 85016023609     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2017.03.011     Document Type: Article

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