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Climate Change and Human Health


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General Studies

"Human Health," Chapter 9 of: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 2001. Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Cambridge University Press.
FULL TEXT: http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg2/347.htm
PDF: http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg2/pdf/wg2TARchap9.pdf

Kovats, R. Sari, Bettina Menne, Anthony J. McMichael, Carlos Corvalan, and Roberto Bertollini. 2000. Climate Change and Human Health: Impact and adaptation. World Health Organization.
PDF: http://www.who.int/environmental_information/Climate/climchange.pdf


Patz, Jonathan A. and R. Sari Kovats. 2002. "Hotspots in climate change and human health," British Medical Journal, Vol. 325, 9 November, pp. 1094-1098.
FULL TEXT: http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7372/1094

McMichael, Anthony J and Rosalie E Woodruff. 2002. "Climate change and human health: what do we know?," Medical Journal of Australia, Vol. 177, No. 11/12, pp. 590-591.
FULL TEXT: http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/177_11_021202/mcm10487_fm.html

Enright, Wendy. 2001. Changing Habits, Changing Climate: A Foundation Analysis. Canadian Institute of Child Health: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
PDF: http://www.cich.ca/ClimateChangeReport.pdf
IN FRENCH: http://www.cich.ca/PDFFiles/ClimateChangeReportFrenchFinal.pdf

Epstein, Paul R. 2000. "Is Global Warming Harmful to Health?," Scientific American, August 20.
FULL TEXT: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0008C7B2-E060-1C73-9B81809EC588EF21
PDF: http://www.med.harvard.edu/chge/sciam.pdf

Patz, Jonathan A., David Engelberg, and John Last. 2000. "The effects of changing weather on public health," Annual Review of Public Health, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 271-307. [ABSTRACT]

Haines, Andrew, Anthony J. McMichael, Paul R. Epstein. 2000. "Global climate change and health," Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 163, No. 6, September 19, pp. 729-34.
FULL TEXT: http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/163/6/729
PDF:http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/reprint/163/6/729.pdf

Last, John, Konia Trouton, and David Pengelly. 1998. Taking Our Breath Away: The Health Effects of Air Pollution and Climate Change. David Suzuki Foundation: Vancouver, BC, Canada.
PDF: http://www.lakehuron.on.ca/resources/Health-Effects-of-Climate-Change.pdf

Shindell, Sidney, and Jack Raso. 1997. Global Climate Change and Human Health. American Council on Science and Health: New York, NY.
PDF: http://www.acsh.org/publications/reports/global.pdf

United States Environmental Protection Agency. 1997. Climate Change and Public Health. U.S. EPA: Washington, D.C.
PDF: http://yosemite.epa.gov/OAR/globalwarming.nsf/UniqueKeyLookup/SHSU5BNNXJ/$File/ccandpublichealth.pdf

McMichael, Anthony J. and Andrew Haines. 1997. "Global climate change: the potential effects on health," British Medical Journal, Vol. 315, 27 September, pp. 805-809.
FULL TEXT: http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/315/7111/805

Epstein, Paul R. 1997. "Climate, Ecology, and Human Health," Consequences, Vol. 3, No. 2.
FULL TEXT: http://www.gcrio.org/CONSEQUENCES/vol3no2/climhealth.html.

Martens, W.J.M., R. Slooff, and E.K. Jackson. 1997. "Climate change, human health and sustainable development," Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Vol. 75, No. 6, pp. 583-588. [ABSTRACT]

Epstein, Paul R., and David Sharp. 1993. "Medicine in a Warmer World," The Lancet, Vol. 342, No. 8878, October 23, p. 1003-1004.

Haines, Andrew, Paul R. Epstein, and Anthony J. McMichael. 1993. "Global health watch: Monitoring impacts of environmental change," The Lancet, Vol. 342, No. 8885, December 11, pp. 1464-1469.

Haines, A. and C. Fuchs. 1991. "Potential impacts on health of atmospheric change," Journal of Public Health Medicine, Vol. 13, No. 2, May, pp. 69-80.

Leaf, A. 1989. "Potential health effects of global climatic and environmental changes," New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 321, No. 23, December 7, pp. 1577-1583.

 

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