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- Evaluating the potential for climate change early warning systems to contol diseases
- ( K. Kuhn;D. Campbell-Lendrum;A. Haines;J. Cox / Climate Change and Health, World Health Organization , 2005)
- This World Health Organization document evaluates the potential of climate-based disease early warning as a means of improving preparedness for, and response to, epidemics. The authors develop a conce...
- Meteorological effects of malaria transmission in Burkina Faso
- ( Y. Ye;V. R. Louis;S. Simboro;R. Sauerborn / BMC Public Health , 2007)
- This paper, published in BMC public health, examines the effects of meteorological factors (temperature, relative humidity and rainfall) on the incidence of clinical malaria. It uses data collected fr...
- The relationship between climate and malaria in Tanzania
- ( A. E. Jones;U. Uddenfeldt Wort;A. P. Morse / Malaria Journal, BioMed Central , 2007)
- This paper, published in the Malaria Journal examines the relationship between climate and malaria incidence in Kagera in northwest Tanzania, with the aim of determining whether seasonal weather forec...
- Impacts of climate change in East Africa
- ( M. Case / WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature , 2006)
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This report highlights some of the major impacts of climate change on conservation for East African countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. It also illustrates that climate change i...
- Addressing the effects of climate change on health
- ( D. Campbell-Lendrum; C. Corvalan; M. Neira / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health , 2007)
- This article considers the health impacts of climate change and discusses policies and interventions to address these effects. Many of the most important global killers including malaria and diarrhoea...
- Clean, renewable energy for all African households?
- ( Christian Aid , 2006)
- Tens of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa could die of disease directly attributable to climate change, is the main finding of this NGO report. Calling on the United Kingdom Government in part...
- Assessing the health-related impacts of climate change
- ( P.R. Epstein; E. Mills / Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School , 2005)
- This paper documents a multi-dimensional assessment of climate change, with a particular focus on human health aspects alongside the ecological and economic impacts. The study also ties in the importa...
- Climate change and health
- ( Department for International Development, UK , 2004)
- This DFID key sheet aimed at DFID staff and development partners considers the impact of climate change on the health of the world's poor, and explores tools for adaptation to climate change. Health-...
- Developing a health focused cost-benefit analysis of greenhouse gases mitigation in Buenos Aires
- ( M. Conte Grand; F. Gaioli; E. Perone; A. Sörensson; T. Svensson; P. Tarela / Centro de Estudios Macroeconomicos de Argentina , 2002)
- This paper aims to understand the possible health-related benefits of reducing and containing greenhouse and local gases (GHG) emissions in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The study extrapolates three scena...
- Impacts of a carbon tax on health and agricultural sectors in China
- ( D. O’Connor; Z. Fan; K. Aunan; T. Berntsen; H. Vennemo / OECD Development Centre , 2003)
- China’s climate policy over the coming decades will be crucial to efforts to slow global warming. While CO2 emissions growth slowed in the 1990s, it is too early to know if this represents the beginni...
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