Climate Change and Health: Research Report

2004
ISBN: 0-662-68141-X
Cat. No.: H46-2/04-347

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Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Climate change: Facing up to the challenge
• Impacts and adaptation research: Building a strong foundation
• C-CIARN- a cross-Canada connection of researchers and decision makers
• The health impacts of climate change: What do we know? What can we expect?
• The Research Networks
  • Health effects of extreme weather events
  • Air pollution-related health effects
  • Water-and food-borne contamination
  • Vector-borne and zoonotic diseases
  • Population vulnerability in rural and urban communities
  • Socio-economic impacts of climate change on community health and well-being
• Cross-Cutting Health issues
• Adapting to Climate Change
• Better understanding for a healthier future

"Whoever wishes to investigate medicine properly, should proceed thus: in the first place to consider the seasons of the year, and what effects each of them produces, for they are not alike, but differ much from themselves in regard to their changes."

Hippocrates, in "Air, Waters and Places" in Hippocratic Writings.
Lloyd G. E. R., ed. London, UK. Penguin. 1978