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From: "Dr. Damaso Tor" <damaso@...>
To: <salud_ambiental@...>
Subject: [SALUD_AMBIENTAL] OMS_WHO - Climate change and human health -
risks and responses
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:25:39 -0500

Climate change and human health - risks and responses

A.J. McMichael, D.H. Campbell-Lendrum, C.F. Corvalán, K.L. Ebi, A. Githeko,
J.D. Scheraga and A. Woodward

World Health Organization 2003

Summary of the book available online as PDF file [38p.] at:

<http://www.who.int/globalchange/climate/en/ccSCREEN.pdf>


This book, published by WHO in collaboration with UNEP and WMO, 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.

Other PDF File to download at:
<http://www.who.int/globalchange/publications/cchhsummary/en/>


Global climate change and health: an old story writ large

- Weather and climate: changing human exposures

- International consensus on the science of climate and health:
the IPCC Third Assessment Report

- Looking to the future: challenges for scientists studying climate change
and health

- Health impacts of climate extremes

- Climate change and infectious diseases

- How much disease would climate change cause?

- Stratospheric ozone depletion, ultraviolet radiation and health

- National assessments of health impacts of climate change

- Monitoring the health effects of climate change

- Adaptation and adaptive capacity, to lessen health impacts

- From science to policy: developing responses to climate change

- Conclusions and recommendations for action

- Glossary and References


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