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CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN HEALTH
General Studies
"Human Health," Chapter 9 of: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 2001. Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Cambridge University Press. TEXT or PDF
Séguin, Jacinthe, ed. "Human Health in a Changing Climate: An Assessment of Vulnerabilities and Adaptive Capacity." July 2008. Health Canada. 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
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. TEXT
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. TEXT
Enright, Wendy. 2001. Changing Habits, Changing Climate:
A Foundation Analysis. Canadian Institute of Child Health:
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
PDF IN ENGLISH or PDF IN FRENCH
Epstein, Paul R. 2000. "Is Global Warming Harmful to Health?," Scientific American, August 20. TEXT
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. TEXT or 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
Shindell, Sidney, and Jack Raso. 1997. Global Climate Change and Human Health. American Council on Science and Health: New York, NY. PDF
United States Environmental Protection Agency. Health. U.S. EPA: Washington, D.C. TEXT
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. TEXT
Epstein, Paul R. 1997. "Climate, Ecology, and Human Health," Consequences, Vol. 3, No. 2. TEXT
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.
