Health and Climate Change
Modelling the Impacts of Global Warming and Ozone Depletion
Pim Martens
Series: Environmental and Health Series
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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.
Reviews
'Understanding how complex ecological and climatic change can influence human health is the new challenge before us. The book confronts these multi-dimensional risk assessments head-on and will catalyse the important interdisciplinary and integrated approach that is the new paradigm now required for environmental and public health research.'
Dr Jonathan Patz, John Hopkins University
Pim Martens is a researcher at Maastricht University. He has authored and co-authored several influential reports for, among others, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the World health Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme.
Foreword by Tony McMichael * Preface * Introduction * 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 * Discussion and Conclusions * References * Index