Research Catalog

Title

Climate change and human health / editors, A.J. McMichael... [et.al.].

Publication

Geneva : World Health Organization, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McMichael, A. J. (Anthony J.)
• World Meteorological Organization
• United Nations Environment Programme

Description

xvii, 297 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Subject

• Medical climatology
• Climatic changes > Health aspects
• Greenhouse Effect
• Climate
• Environmental Health

Note

• "An assessment prepared by a Task Group on behalf of the World Health Organization, the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-296).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• THE CLIMATE SYSTEM: Human activity and global climate change -- Climate change and greenhouse gases -- Climate scenarios: predictions and uncertainties -- Components of climate change -- Stratospheric ozone depletion -- Climate change mitigation -- HEAT, COLD AND AIR POLLUTION: Conventional climate-health research -- Impacts of stressful weather on physiology and health -- Climate change, thermal stress and mortality: a four-country study -- Factors influencing vulnerability to stressful weather -- Links between air pollution, climate and human health -- EFFECTS ON BIOLOGICAL DISEASE AGENTS: Infectious disease patterns -- Disease vectors and intermediate hosts -- Pest species -- Diseases related to water supply and sanitation -- Foodborne diseases -- Person-to-person infections -- Future infectious disease patterns and public health responses -- CLIMATE, FOOD PRODUCTION AND NUTRITION: World food supplies -- Impacts of climate change on food production -- Cereal grain supplies, food costs and the risk of hunger -- The wider context -- EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS: Modelling extreme weather events -- Societal impacts of extreme weather events -- Health impacts of extreme weather events -- Environmental factors and displaced persons -- Environmental factors and conflict -- Disaster mitigation --
• SEA LEVEL RISE: Past and future sea level rise -- Effects of sea level rise on ecosystems -- Assessment of vulnerability of coastal zones to sea level rise -- Regional impacts of sea level rise -- Potential health effects of sea level rise -- Response strategies -- STRATOSPHERIC OZONE DEPLETION: Stratospheric ozone depletion and greenhouse gas accumulation -- Direct health effects of increased ultraviolet levels -- Indirect health effects of increased ultraviolet levels -- Mitigation of stratospheric ozone depletion and its health impacts -- Future research and monitoring -- RESEARCH AND MONITORING: Research and monitoring: related tasks -- Epidemiological research: how useful in this context? -- Assessing health impacts within an ecological framework -- Monitoring the health impacts of climate change -- Current global monitoring framework -- Role of WHO and other UN agencies -- Role of the social sciences.

OCLC

• 35668621
• SCSB-10259593

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library