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Human health

This section of the Resource Centre contains literature on methods, models, tools, data sources for and results of climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation assessments for human health, in different NAI party regions.

  1. Human health - chapter of the IPCC WGII contribution to IPCC's Third Assessment Report (TAR) [IPCC, 2001] 
  2. Methods for assessing human health vulnerability and public health adaptation to climate change [ World Health Organisation, 2003]
  3. Global warming and infectious disease - a review article [Khasnis and Nettleman, 2005]
  4. Climate change futures: health, ecologic and economic dimensions [Harvard Medical School, 2005]
  5. Adapting to dengue risk [M. Taylor et al., 2006]
  6. Adaptation to climate variability induced highland malaria and cholera in the Lake Victoria Region [P. Yanda et al., 2006]
  7. Vulnerability to dengue fever in Jamaica [C. Heslop-Thomas et al., 2006] 
  8. Vulnerability to climate induced highland malaria in East Africa [S.O. Wandiga et al., 2006]
  9. Climatic and socio-economic influences on malaria and cholera risks in the Lake Victoria Region of Tanzania [P. Yanda et al., 2005]
  10. The threat of Dengue fever in the Caribbean: impacts and adaptation [Anthony Chen, 2006]
  11. Climate Change Induced Vulnerability to Malaria and Cholera in the Lake Victoria Region [Wandiga, Shem O., 2006]
  12. Comparative risk assessment of the burden of disease from climate change [D. Cambell-Lendrum and R. Woodruff, 2006]
  13. Is the global rise of asthma an early impact of anthropogenic climate change? [Beggs, P.J. and H.J. Bambrick, 2005]
  14. Clima change and malaria in India [Bhattacharya, S., C.Sharma, R.C. Dhiman, and A.P. Mitra, 2006]
  15. Economy-wide estimates of the implications of climate change [Bosello, F., R. Ronson, and T. Tol, 2005]
  16. El-Nino and health [Kovats, R.S., M.J. Bouma et al., 2003]
  17. Global Climate Change. Comparative quantification of health risks: global and regional burden of disease due to selected major risk factors [McMichael, A.J., D. Campbell-Lendrum et al., 2004]
  18. Heat-waves: risks and responses [WHO, 2004]