Environmental change, climate, and health : issues and research methods /

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The advent of global environmental change, with all its uncertainties and emphasis on long term prediction, brings new challenges and tasks for scientists, the public and policy makers. This book addresses the concepts and methods needed to analyse and understand this complex issue.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Martens, Willem Jozef Meine, 1968-, McMichael, A. J. (Anthony J.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2002.
Temas:
Environmental health.
Environmentally induced diseases.
Social medicine.
Causation.
Climatology.
Environmental Illness > etiology
Environmental Medicine > methods
Environmental Medicine
Social Medicine
Causality
Climate
Models, Statistical
Risk Factors
Environmental Health > statistics & numerical data
Médecine de l'environnement.
Maladies de l'environnement.
Médecine sociale.
Causalité.
Climat.
climate.
MEDICAL > Infectious Diseases.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Contagious.
Climatology
Causation
Environmental health
Environmentally induced diseases
Social medicine
Statistics
Statistics.
Statistiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Global environmental changes: anticipating and assessing risks to health / A.J. McMichael and P. Martens
  • Historical connections between climate, medical thought and human health / A.G. Carmichael and M. Fleming Moran
  • The contribution of global environmental factors to ill-health / K.R. Smith and M. Desai
  • Surprise, nonlinearity and complex behavior / T. Awerbuch, A.E. Kiszewski and R. Levins
  • Epidemilogic and impacts assessment methods / K.L. Ebi and J.A. Patz
  • Retrospective studies: analogue approaches describing climate variability and health / R.S. Kovats and M. Bouma
  • Detecting the infectious disease consequences of climate change and extreme weather events / P.R. Epstein
  • Integrated assessment modelling of human health impacts / P. Martens, J. Rotmans and D. Rothman
  • Remote sensing, GIS, and spatial statistics: powerful tools for landscape epidemiology / L.R. Beck, U. Kitron and M.R. Bobo
  • Monitoring the health impacts of global climate change / D.H. Campbell-Lendrum, P. Wilkinson, K. Kuhn, R.S. Kovats, A. Haines, B. Menne and T.W. Parr
  • Epidemiology, environmental health and global change / A. Woodward
  • Dealing with scientific uncertainties / T.O. Riordan and A.J. McMichael.

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