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- Title
Climate change and human health: impacts, vulnerability, and mitigation.
- Authors
Haines, A; Kovats, R S; Campbell-Lendrum, D; Corvalan, C
- Abstract
It is now widely accepted that climate change is occurring as a result of the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere arising from the combustion of fossil fuels. Climate change may affect health through a range of pathways--eg, as a result of increased frequency and intensity of heat waves, reduction in cold-related deaths, increased floods and droughts, changes in the distribution of vector-borne diseases, and effects on the risk of disasters and malnutrition. The overall balance of effects on health is likely to be negative and populations in low-income countries are likely to be particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects. The experience of the 2003 heat wave in Europe shows that high-income countries might also be adversely affected. Adaptation to climate change requires public-health strategies and improved surveillance. Mitigation of climate change by reducing the use of fossil fuels and increasing the use of a number of renewable energy technologies should improve health in the near term by reducing exposure to air pollution.
- Publication
Lancet (London, England), 2006, Vol 367, Issue 9528, p2101
- ISSN
1474-547X
- DOI
10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68933-2