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Climatic change: possible impacts on human health

  • Beniston, Martin Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
    2002
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  • Swiss Medical Weekly. - 2002, vol. 132, no. 2526, p. 332-337
climatic change
climatic impacts
modeling
physiological stress
vector-borne disease
English This paper addresses a number of problems relating climatic change and human health. Following an introduction that outlines the over-arching issues, a short summary is given on climatic change and its anthropogenic causes. The rest of the paper then focuses on the direct and indirect impacts of global climatic change on health. Direct effects comprise changes in the hygrothermal stress response of humans, atmospheric pollution, water quality and availability; indirect effects include the potential for the spread of vector-borne diseases outside of their current range. The paper concludes with some comments on possible response strategies aimed at alleviating the adverse effects of climatic change on human health.
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Faculté des sciences et de médecine
Department
Département de Géosciences
Language
  • English
Classification
Geography
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