Description
There is increasing understanding, globally, that climate change will have profound and mostly harmful effects on human health. This authoritative book brings together international experts to describe both direct (such as heat waves) and indirect (such as vector-borne disease incidence) impacts of climate change, set in a broad, international, economic, political and environmental context. This unique book also expands on these issues to address a third category of potential longer-term impacts on global health: famine, population dislocation, and conflict. This lively yet scholarly resource explores these issues fully, linking them to health in urban and rural settings in developed and developing countries. The book finishes with a practical discussion of action that health professionals can yet take.
Chapter
1 The Anthropocene: A Planet Under Pressure
2 Climate Change and Global Health
3 Heat-related and Cold-related Mortality and Morbidity
4 Occupational Heat Effects: A Global Health and Economic Threat Due to Climate Change
5 Measuring and Estimating Occupational Heat Exposure and Effects in Relation to Climate Change: 'Hothaps' Tools For Impact Assessments and Prevention Approaches
6 Climate Extremes, Disasters and Health
PART III: SECONDARY EFFECTS
7 Global Warming and Malaria in Tropical Highlands – An Estimation of Ethiopia'S 'Unmitigated' Annual Malaria Burden in The 21St Century
8 Dengue: Distribution and Transmission Dynamics With Climate Change
9 Lyme Disease and Climate Change
10 Climate Change and Human Parasitic Disease
11 Impacts of Climate Change On Allergens and Allergic Diseases: Knowledge and Highlights From Two Decades of Research
12 Wildfires, Air Pollution, Climate Change and Health
PART IV: TERTIARY EFFECTS
13 Famine, Hunger, Society and Climate Change
14 Moving to A Better Life? Climate, Migration and Population Health
15 Unholy Trinity: Climate Change, Conflict and Ill Health
16 Climate Change and Health in East Asia: A Food in Health Security Perspective
17 Climate Change and Health in South Asian Countries
18 Climate Change and Global Health: A Latin American Perspective
19 Small Island States – Canaries in The Coal Mine of Climate Change and Health
20 Climate Change Adaptation to Infectious Diseases in Europe
21 Climate Change and Health in The Arctic
22 Climate Change and Health in Africa
23 Zoonotic Diseases and Their Drivers in Africa
PART VI: CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES
24 Climate Change, Food and Energy: Politics and Co-Benefits
25 Death of A Mwana: Biomass Fuels, Poverty, Gender and Climate Change
26 Mental Health, Cognition and The Challenge of Climate Change
27 Climate Change, Housing and Public Health
28 Health in New Socio-economic Pathways For Climate Change Research
29 Health Activism and The Challenge of Climate Change
30 Climate Change and Health: From Adaptation Towards A Solution
Climate Change and Global Health
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