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Author(s) McMichael, A.J.; Campbell-Lendrum, D.H.; Corvalan, C.F.; Ebi, K.L.; Githeki, A.; Scheraga, J.D.; Woodward, A.

Climate change and human health: risks and responses

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World Health Organization (WHO)
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This report describes the context and process of global climate change, its actual or likely impacts on health, and how human societies and their governments should respond, with particular focus on the health sector. It argues that climate change is responsible for 2.4 percent of all cases of diarrhoea worldwide and for 2 percent of all cases of malaria, according to the most recent figures available. Moreover, an estimated 150,000 deaths and 5.5 million Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYS) were caused in the year 2000 by climate change.

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Themes Climate change Health and health facilities
Number of pages
322 p.
Publication year
2003

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