Public Health
Volume 120, Issue 7 , Pages 585-596 , July 2006

Climate change and human health: Impacts, vulnerability and public health

  • A. Haines

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    • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, WC1E 7HT London, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 20 7927 2237; fax: +44 20 7323 4562.
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  • R.S. Kovats

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    • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, WC1E 7HT London, UK
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  • D. Campbell-Lendrum

      Affiliations

    • World Health Organization, Geneva, SwitzerlandEdited version presented in December 2005 by Professor Sir Andy Haines as the 102nd Harben Lecturer for the Royal Institute of Public Health
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  • C. Corvalan

      Affiliations

    • World Health Organization, Geneva, SwitzerlandEdited version presented in December 2005 by Professor Sir Andy Haines as the 102nd Harben Lecturer for the Royal Institute of Public Health

Received 10 November 2005 ,Accepted 10 November 2005.

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    Potential health effects of climate variability and change from Haines and Patz1 JAMA, 7 January 2004, Vol 291, Page 10. Copyright© (2004) American Medical Association.

    Potential health effects of climate variability and change from Haines and Patz1 JAMA, 7 January 2004, Vol 291, Page 10. Copyright© (2004) American Medical Association.

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    Three important research paths (McMichael AJ, 2002. WHO/PAHO Conference on ‘Climate variability and change and their health effects in the Caribbean’) with examples of relevant topics. Reproduced with

    Three important research paths (McMichael AJ, 2002. WHO/PAHO Conference on ‘Climate variability and change and their health effects in the Caribbean’) with examples of relevant topics. Reproduced with permission.

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    Overview of the comparative risk assessment (CRA) process for climate change and health.

    Overview of the comparative risk assessment (CRA) process for climate change and health.

☆ Based on a paper presented to the World Climate Change Conference, Moscow, Russian Federation, September 29–October 3, 2003 which has been updated.

PII: S0033-3506(06)00005-9

doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2006.01.002

Public Health
Volume 120, Issue 7 , Pages 585-596 , July 2006

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