The health practitioner's guide to climate change
Subtitle: diagnosis and cure
By: edited by Jenny Griffiths ... [et al.].
Contributors: Griffiths, Jenny.
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; Sterling, Va
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781844077281; 9781844077298
Subjects: Environmental health; Climatic changes -- Health aspects; Climate; Acclimatization; Community Health Services; Environmental Exposure -- adverse effects; Public Health; Risk Factors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Greenhouse gas emissions : the hard facts / Felicity Liggins; title: Climate change is deadly : the health impacts of climate change / Mala Rao; title: Health and the natural environment / David Stone; title: The health benefits of action on climate change / Ian Roberts; title: Leadership : how to influence national and international policy / Mike Gill and Robin Stott; title: How to help to plan a healthy, sustainable, low-carbon community / Hugh Barton, Marcus Grant and Philip Insall; title: How you can make a real difference / Lindsey Stewart and Alan Maryon-Davis; title: How to help people to change behaviour / Lucy Reynolds and Allison Thorpe; title: How to take action in the community / Jenny Griffiths; title: How to help organisations to take action / Jenny Griffiths and Lucy Reynolds; title: How health services can act / David Pencheon; title: How to prepare for the health effects of climate change / Giovanni Leonardi.