Climate change and rural child health
By: Erica Bell, Bastian M. Seidel and Joav Merrick, editors
Series: Health and human development
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781611226409
Subjects: Health and hygiene; Climatic changes; Rural children; Climate Change; Socioeconomic Factors; Rural Health; Medical climatology; Health aspects; Child Welfare; Developing Countries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : climate change and rural child health / Erica Bell, Bastian M. Seidel and Joav Merrick; title: Climate change impacts will be pervasive / Michael C. MacCracken; title: Climate and child health in rural areas of low and middle income countries / Angela Baschieri and Sari Kovats; title: Protecting our health and environment / Cheryl C. Macpherson; title: Impact of global climate change on childrens' health and well-being / Jeffrey Goldhagen; title: Climate change and child health in Australia / Lyndall Strazdins, Sharon Friel, Anthony McMichael, et al.; title: Warming up to the embodied context of First Nations child health research / Margot W. Parkes, Sarah de Leeuw, and Margot Greenwood; title: Healthy children and a healthy planet : a role for education / Susan M. Cooke ... [et al.]; title: Climate change and diarrhoeal disease : perspectives for development policies / Kirsten Halsnæs and Tullik H.Y. Føyn; title: Flooding and infectious disease in rural children / Colleen Lau and Philip Weinstein; title: Climate change effects on trematode and nematode diseases affecting children in rural areas of developing countries / Santiago Mas-Coma, M. Adela Valero, and M. Dolores Bargues; title: Impacts of climate change on aeroallergens and allergic respiratory diseases in children in rural areas / Paul John Beggs; title: Challenges and solutions in the provision of health to the rural Bedouin population in southern Israel / Jacob Urkin, Said Alsana, and Joav Merrick; title: Meat, climate change, and global child health / John Powles; title: Climate adversity : yet another stressor for rural adolescents / Helen J. Stain ... [et al.]; title: The effect of climate change on children living on Pacific islands / Emma Britton and Philippa Howden-Chapman; title: From typhoid to tsunamis : Samoan children in a changing world / Graeme Lindsay, Teuila Percival, and Alistair Woodward; title: Social-ecological resilience and Inuit child health / Karen Morrison and David Waltner-Toews; title: The global financial crisis, climate change, and rural child health / Erica Bell; title: Australia, 'lucky country' or 'climate change canary' : her children's future / Elizabeth G. Hanna ... [et al.].