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The health practitioner's guide to climate change : diagnosis and cure

Title
The health practitioner's guide to climate change : diagnosis and cure / edited by Jenny Griffiths [and others].
Publication
London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2009.

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Additional Authors
Griffiths, Jenny.
Description
xx, 380 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Summary
Exploring the links between climate change & health, this book offers both students & practitioners insight into the benefits for health in tackling the causes of climate change and developing a sustainable lifestyle, including sustainable health services.
Subject
  • Environmental health
  • Climatic changes > Health aspects
  • Climatology
  • Acclimatization
  • Public health
  • Climate
  • Acclimatization
  • Environmental Exposure > adverse effects
  • Public Health
  • Community Health Services
  • Risk Factors
  • climate
  • public health
  • Public health
  • Climatology
  • Climatic changes > Health aspects
  • Environmental health
  • Gesundheitsfürsorge
  • Gesundheitsgefährdung
  • Gesundheitspolitik
  • Klimaänderung
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Greenhouse gas emissions : the hard facts / Felicity Liggins -- Climate change is deadly : the health impacts of climate change / Mala Rao -- Health and the natural environment / David Stone -- The health benefits of action on climate change / Ian Roberts -- Leadership : how to influence national and international policy / Mike Gill and Robin Stott -- How to help to plan a healthy, sustainable, low-carbon community / Hugh Barton, Marcus Grant and Philip Insall -- How you can make a real difference / Lindsey Stewart and Alan Maryon-Davis -- How to help people to change behaviour / Lucy Reynolds and Allison Thorpe -- How to take action in the community / Jenny Griffiths -- How to help organizations to take action / Jenny Griffiths and Lucy Reynolds -- How health services can act / David Pencheon -- How to prepare for the health effects of climate change / Giovanni Leonardi.
ISBN
  • 9781844077281
  • 9781844077298
  • 1844077284
  • 1844077292
LCCN
2009012109
OCLC
  • ocn317249505
  • 317249505
  • SCSB-9718063
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library