Public Health
Volume 122, Issue 7 , Pages 653-656 , July 2008

Climate change and rising energy costs: A threat but also an opportunity for a healthier future?

  • G. McCartney

      Affiliations

    • NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Dalian House, St Vincent Street, Glasgow G3 8YZ, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, UK. Tel.: +441413573949.
    • ,
  • P. Hanlon

      Affiliations

    • University of Glasgow, 1 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, UK

Received 22 December 2006 ,Revised 19 February 2008 ,Accepted 26 March 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2008.03.019

Public Health
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