Managing the health effects of climate change /
Frankson, Joan Ross.
Commonwealth Secretariat.
London : Commonwealth Secretariat,
c2009.
Climate change is not just an environmental issue--it is also a health issues. The major health threats due to climate change are caused by changing patterns of disease, water and food insecurity, vulnerable shelter and human settlements, extreme climatic events, and population growth and migration.
Cover title.
Each summary paper is one of a series prepared by the Commonwealth Secretariat based on the report of the UCL Lancet Commission on managing the health effects of climate change.
v. 1. Changing patterns of disease and mortality -- v. 2. Food -- v. 3. Water and sanitation -- v. 4. Shelter and human settlements -- v. 5. Extreme events -- v. 6. Population and migration.
Climate change is not just an environmental issue--it is also a health issues. The major health threats due to climate change are caused by changing patterns of disease, water and food insecurity, vulnerable shelter and human settlements, extreme climatic events, and population growth and migration.
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