Climate change and health – what’s the problem?

The scientific consensus is that global warming is occurring and is largely the result of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. This paper examines the health implications of global warming, the current socio-political attitudes towards action on climate change and highlight the health co-be...

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Autor principal: Anstey, Matthew HR
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3606121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23394373
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-8603-9-4
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spelling pubmed-36061212013-03-23 Climate change and health – what’s the problem? Anstey, Matthew HR Global Health Commentary The scientific consensus is that global warming is occurring and is largely the result of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. This paper examines the health implications of global warming, the current socio-political attitudes towards action on climate change and highlight the health co-benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, policy development for climate change and health should embrace health systems strengthening, commencing by incorporating climate change targets into Millennium Development Goal 7. BioMed Central 2013-02-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3606121/ /pubmed/23394373 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-8603-9-4 Text en Copyright ©2013 Anstey; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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