Health and Climate Change

Modelling the Impacts of Global Warming and Ozone Depletion

Pim Martens (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

1998
Earthscan Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-85383-522-3 (ISBN)

Infos

A study of the potentially devastating health impacts of global atmospheric changes. The author uses available knowledge to model future health impacts, including: vector-borne diseases; marine-borne diseases; cancers and cataracts from ozone depletion; and cardiovascular and respiratory disorders.

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A study of the potentially enormous and devastating health impacts of the global atmospheric changes which are under way. The author uses available knowledge to model future health impacts, including: vector-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and schistosomiasis; marine-borne diseases such as cholera and toxic algae; cancers and cataracts from ozone depletion; and cardiovascular and respiratory disorders from higher temperatures and air pollution. The projections in this book, on the global and sub-global scale, as well as the methods used to reach them, are designed to provide information for researchers, policy makers and a wider public.

Inhalt

An eco-epidemiological modelling approach; climate change and vector-borne diseases; modelling malaria as a complex adaptive system; climate change thermal stress and mortality changes; the impact of ozone depletion on skin cancer incidence.

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Environmental and Health Series
• Zusatzinfo: Figures, tables
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 234 mm
• Gewicht: 369 g
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• ISBN-10: 1-85383-522-6 / 1853835226
• ISBN-13: 978-1-85383-522-3 / 9781853835223
• Zustand: Neuware