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Health and Climate Change - Modelling the impacts of global warming and ozone depletion (Paperback)
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Health and Climate Change - Modelling the impacts of global warming and ozone depletion (Paperback)
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'Understanding how complex ecological and climatic change can
influence human health is the new challenge before us. The book
confronts these multidimensional risk assessments head-on and will
catalyse the important interdisciplinary and integrated approach
that is the new paradigm now required for environmental and public
health research.' Dr JONATHAN PATZ Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene
and Public Health 'This book provides a sturdy foundation for
thinking about how best to tackle a varied spectrum of population
health hazards posed by different aspects and combinations of
global change processes it alsogoes that extra mile by estimating
the attributable population burdens of disease or mortality that
are likely to result from these aspects of global change. It is
heartening to see the results of this mathematical modeling being
presented in policy-relevant terms.' From the Foreword by TONY
McMICHAEL Health and Climate Change is the first major study of the
potentially devastating health impacts of the global atmospheric
changes which are under way. Using the best available data, the
author presents models of the most plausible future courses of
vector-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and
schistosomiasis; skin cancer caused by nozone depletion; and
cardiovascular and respiratory disorders caused by higher
temperatures. Current epidemiological research methods are not well
adapted to analysing complex systems influenced by human
intervention, or more simple processes calculated to take place
within the distant future. Health and Climate Change proposes a new
paradigm of integrated eco-epidemiological models for these areas
of study. It will be essential reading for those concerned with
public health and epidemiology, environmental studies, climate
change and development studies. Originally published in 1998
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