Detecting and attributing health burdens to climate change

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 125, Issue 8, 2017, Pages

  Ebi, Kristie L ^a   Ogden, Nicholas H ^b   Semenza, Jan C ^c   Woodward, Alistair ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENCEPHALITIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VIBRIO; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EUROPE; HEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VIBRIO INFECTIONS;

CANADA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EUROPE; EXTREME HEAT; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; VIBRIO INFECTIONS;

EID: 85026812604     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/EHP1509     Document Type: Article

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