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RECORD NUMBER: 2 OF 4Main Title | Environmental change, climate, and health : issues and research methods / | |||||||||||||||||
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Publisher | Cambridge University Press, | |||||||||||||||||
Year Published | 2002 | |||||||||||||||||
OCLC Number | 48473865 | |||||||||||||||||
ISBN | 0521782368; 9780521782364; 9780521114028; 0521114020 | |||||||||||||||||
Subjects | Environmental health. ; Environmentally induced diseases. ; Social medicine. ; Environmental Illness--etiology. ; Environmental Medicine--methods. ; Causality. ; Climate. ; Environmental Health--statistics & numerical data. ; Models, Statistical. ; Risk Factors. ; Changement climatique. ; Effets sur l'environnement. ; Santé. ; Maladies infectieuses. ; Recherche médicale. ; Santé environnementale. ; Médecine sociale. ; Environnement et santé publique. ; Maladie environnementale. ; Epidemiologie.--(DE-588)4015016-1 ; Gesundheit.--(DE-588)4020754-7 ; Klimaänderung.--(DE-588)4164199-1 ; Umweltveränderung.--(DE-588)4304982-5 ; Maladies de l'environnement. ; Environmental Illness--etiology--Statistics. ; Environmental Medicine--methods--Statistics. ; Causality--Statistics. ; Climate--Statistics. ; Risk Factors--Statistics. ; Santâe. ; Recherche mâedicale. ; Santâe environnementale. ; Mâedecine sociale. ; Environnement et santâe publique. ; Umweltverèanderung. ; Klimaèanderung. | |||||||||||||||||
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Collation | xiii, 338 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm | |||||||||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents Notes | 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. "This timely volume will be of great interest to health scientists and graduate students concerned with the health effects of global environmental change."--Jacket. |