Climate Change And Global Health

This broad, research-level book covers the impacts of climate change on human health worldwide. Immediate and direct impacts, secondary impacts such as vector ranges and disease incidence, and long-term ones are covered as well as the role of health professionals in preventing and mitigating the health issues caused by climate change. There is increasing understanding, globally, that climate change will have profound and mostly harmful effects on human health. This authoritative book brings together international experts to describe both direct (such as heat waves) and indirect (such as vector-borne disease incidence) impacts of climate change, set in a broad, international, economic, political and environmental context. This unique book also expands on these issues to address a third category of potential longer-term impacts on global health: famine, population dislocation, and conflict. This lively yet scholarly resource explores these issues fully, linking them to health in urban and rural settings in developed and developing countries. The book finishes with a practical discussion of action that health professionals can yet take.