Climate Change and Human Health

[General Studies] [Regional and Country Studies] [Spread of Disease] [Thermal Stress]

Regional and Country studies

[Africa] [Asia] [Australasia] [Europe] [Latin America] [North America] [Small Island States]

Australasia

McMichael, Anthony, Rosalie Woodruff, Peter Whetton, Kevin Hennessy, et al. 2003. Human Health and Climate Change in Oceania: A Risk Assessment 2002. Commonwealth of Australia.
FULL TEXT: http://www.health.gov.au/pubhlth/publicat/document/metadata/env_climate.htm
PDF: http://www.health.gov.au/pubhlth/publicat/document/env_climate.pdf

Woodward, Alistair, Simon Hales, and Neil de Wet. 2001. Climate Change: Potential Effects on Human Health in New Zealand. Ministry for the Environment: Wellington, New Zealand.
PDF: http://www.climatechange.govt.nz/sp/.../pdf/Climate%20Change-Health.pdf

Europe

Kovats, R Sari, Andrew Haines, Rosalind Stanwell-Smith, Pim Martens, Bettina Menne, and Roberto Bertollini. 1999. "Climate change and human health in Europe," British Medical Journal, Vol. 318, 19 June, pp. 1682-1685.
FULL TEXT: http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/318/7199/1682

United Kingdom

Department of Health. 2001. Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK.
Available at: http://www.doh.gov.uk/airpollution/climatechange02/

North America

Canada

Health Canada. 2001. Climate Change and Health & Well-being: A Policy Primer. Climate Change and Health Office: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
PDF: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hecs-sesc/ccho/pdf/policy_primer.pdf

United States

Balbus, John M. and Mark L. Wilson. 2000. Human health & Global climate change: A Review of Potential Impacts in the United States. Pew Center on Global Climate Change: Arlington, VA.
PDF: http://www.pewclimate.org/projects/human_health.pdf