Climate change and global health [Elektronisk resurs] / edited by Colin D. Butler.
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Butler, Colin D. (redaktör/utgivare)
- ISBN 9781780644578
- Publicerad: Wallingford : CABI, 2014
- Engelska online resource (xxiv, 303 s.)
- Relaterad länk:
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http://www.cabi.org/... (Table of Contents / Abstracts)
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http://dx.doi.org/10... (Click here to access resource ) (Table of Contents / Abstracts)
Innehållsförteckning
Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- Part I Introduction -- 1 The Anthropocene: A Planet Under Pressure / Will Steffen -- 2 Climate Change and Global Health / A.J. (Tony) McMichael -- Part II Primary Effects -- 3 Heat-related and Cold-related Mortality and Morbidity / Shakoor Hajat and Lucy Telfar Barnard -- 4 Occupational Heat Effects: A Global Health and Economic Threat Due to Climate Change / Tord Kjellstrom, Rebekah Lucas, Bruno Lemke and Subhashis Sahu -- 5 Measuring and Estimating Occupational Heat Exposure and Effects in Relation to Climate Change: 'Hothaps' Tools for Impact Assessments and Prevention Approaches / Tord Kjellstrom, Rebekah Lucas, Bruno Lemke, Matthias Otto and Vidhya Venugopal -- 6 Climate Extremes, Disasters and Health / Yasushi Honda, Taken Oki, Shinjiro Kanae and Colin D. Butler -- Part III Secondary Effects -- 7 Global Warming and Malaria in Tropical Highlands: An Estimation of Ethiopia's 'Unmitigated' Annual Malaria Burden in the 21st Century / Menno Jan Bouma and Mercedes Pascual -- 8 Dengue: Distribution and Transmission Dynamics with Climate Change / Hilary Bambrick and Simon Hales -- 9 Lyme Disease and Climate Change / Nick H. Ogden -- 10 Climate Change and Human Parasitic Disease / Haylee J. Weaver -- 11 Impacts of Climate Change on Allergens and Allergic Diseases: Knowledge and Highlights from Two Decades of Research / Paul J. Beggs -- 12 Wildfires, Air Pollution, Climate Change and Health / Haruka Morita and Patrick Kinney -- Part IV Tertiary Effects -- 13 Famine, Hunger, Society and Climate Change / Colin D. Butler -- 14 Moving to a Better Life? Climate, Migration and Population Health / Devin C. Bowles, Rafael Reuveny and Colin D. Butler -- 15 Unholy Trinity: Climate Change, Conflict and Ill Health / Devin C. Bowles, Mark Braidwood and Colin D. Butler.
- Part V Regional Issues -- 16 Climate Change and Health in East Asia: A Food in Health Security Perspective / Mark L. Wahlqvist -- 17 Climate Change and Health in South Asian Countries / Manpreet Singh and Mala Rao -- 18 Climate Change and Global Health: A Latin American Perspective / Ulisses Confalonieri, Germán Poveda, Horacio Riojas, Marilyn Aparicio Effen and Ana Flávia Quintão -- 19 Small Island States: Canaries in the Coal Mine of Climate Change and Health / Elizabeth G. Hanna and Lachlan McIver -- 20 Climate Change Adaptation to Infectious Diseases in Europe / Jan C. Semenza -- 21 Climate Change and Health in the Arctic / Alan J. Parkinson and Birgitta Evengård -- 22 Climate Change and Health in Africa / Colin D. Butler, Andrew Mathieson, Devin C. Bowles, Godson Ana and Guéladio Cissé -- 23 Zoonotic Diseases and Their Drivers in Africa / Delia Grace and Bernard Bett -- Part VI Cross-Cutting Issues -- 24 Climate Change, Food and Energy: Politics and Co-benefits / Ole Faergeman -- 25 Death of a Mwana: Biomass Fuels, Poverty, Gender and Climate Change / Bianca Brijnath -- 26 Mental Health, Cognition and the Challenge of Climate Change / Colin D. Butler, Devin C. Bowles, Lachlan McIver and Lisa Page -- 27 Climate Change, Housing and Public Health / Jouni J.K. Jaakkola and Adeladza K. Amegah -- 28 Health in New Socio-economic Pathways for Climate Change Research / Kristie L. Ebi -- Part VII Transformation -- 29 Health Activism and the Challenge of Climate Change / Colin D. Butler and Sue Wareham -- 30 Climate Change and Health: From Adaptation Towards a Solution / Colin D. Butler, Robin Stott, Kathryn Bowen, Matthew Haigh, Byron Smith, Mark Braidwood and Devin C. Bowles.
- This book describes the direct and indirect global impacts of climate change. It includes 30 chapters divided into 7 parts. Part I (Introduction) includes 2 chapters describing anthropocene and the impact of climate change on global health. Part II includes 4 chapters focusing on the primary health effects of climate change: heat- and cold-related mortality and morbidity; occupational heat exposure and effects; and climate extremes, disasters and health. Part III includes 6 chapters covering the secondary health effects of climate change: global warming and malaria in tropical highlands; dengue distribution and transmission dynamics; Lyme disease; human parasitic disease; allergens and allergic diseases; and wildfires and air pollution. Part IV includes 3 chapters describing the tertiary health effects of climate change: famine, food security and hunger; migration and population health; and association between climate change, conflict and ill-health. Part V includes 8 chapters discussing the health impacts of climate change in different regions (East Asia, South Asia, Latin America, Small Island States (Pacific Islands, Caribbean and Indian Ocean Islands), Europe, Arctic and Africa). Part VI includes 5 chapters discussing cross-cutting issues related to climate change: food and energy; biomass fuels, poverty and gender; mental health and cognition; housing and public health; and scenarios. Lastly, Part VII includes 2 chapters on health activism and adaptation to climate change. This book provides invaluable evidence for public health professionals, those responsible for protecting populations from the effects of extreme events, and public health and development communities.
Ämnesord
- Medical climatology (LCSH)
- World health (LCSH)
- Climatic changes -- Health aspects (LCSH)
- Climate Change (MeSH)
- Global Health (MeSH)
- Klimatförändringar -- hälsoaspekter (sao)
- Africa
- Caribbean
- East Asia
- Europe
- Indian Ocean Islands
- Latin America
- Pacific Islands
- South Asia
Indexterm och SAB-rubrik
- VV900 - Occupational Health and Safety
- VV600 - Non-communicable Human Diseases and Injuries
- VV500 - Human Health and the Environment
- VV220 - Protozoan, Helminth and Arthropod Parasites of Humans, (New March 2000)
- VV210 - Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans, (New March 2000)
- VV100 - Human Nutrition (General)
- VV055 - Human Immunology and Allergology, (New March 2000)
- UU495 - Conflict, (New March 2000)
- UU450 - Community Participation and Development, (New March 2000)
- UU200 - Demography
- SS200 - Non-food/Non-feed Plant Products
- PP800 - Natural Disasters
- PP600 - Pollution and Degradation
- PP500 - Meteorology and Climate
- PP100 - Energy
- KK130 - Forest Fires
- EE950 - Income and Poverty
- EE118 - Health Economics, (New March 2000)
- EE116 - Food Economics, (New March 2000)
Klassifikation
- 616.988 (DDC)
- Veb (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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