Health and climate change : modelling the impacts of global warming and ozone depletion.

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Health and the environment seriesPublication details: London : Earthscan Pub., c1998Description: xxiv, 176 p. : illISBN:

1853835234 (hc)

DDC classification:

613.11 21

Contents:

Subject: A study of the potentially enormous and devastating health impacts of the global atmospheric changes which are under way. Uses available knowledge to model future health impacts, including: vector-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and schistosomiasis; marine-borne diseases such as cholera and toxic algae; cancers and cataracts from ozone depletions; and cardiovascular and respiratory disorders from higher temperatures and air pollution. The projections in this book, on the global and sub-global scale, as well as the methods used to reach them, are designed to provide information for researchers, policy makers, and a wider public

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	613.11 HEA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		900052599

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-173) and index

Introduction -- An ECO-epidemiological modelling approach -- Climate change and vector-born diseases -- Modelling malaria as a complex adaptive system -- Climate change, thermal stress and mortality changes -- The impact of ozone depletion on skin cancer incidence -- Discussion and conclusions

A study of the potentially enormous and devastating health impacts of the global atmospheric changes which are under way. Uses available knowledge to model future health impacts, including: vector-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and schistosomiasis; marine-borne diseases such as cholera and toxic algae; cancers and cataracts from ozone depletions; and cardiovascular and respiratory disorders from higher temperatures and air pollution. The projections in this book, on the global and sub-global scale, as well as the methods used to reach them, are designed to provide information for researchers, policy makers, and a wider public

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