Climate and Health On-Line Resources
CDC
CDC leads efforts to anticipate the health
effects of climate change, to assure that systems are in place
to detect and track them, and to take steps to prepare for, respond
to, and manage associated risks.
EPA
The mission of the Environmental Protection
Agency is to protect human health and the environment. Throughout
the world, the prevalence of some diseases and other threats
to human health depend largely on local climate. Extreme temperatures
can lead directly to loss of life, while climate-related disturbances
in ecological systems, such as changes in the range of infective
parasites, can indirectly impact the incidence of serious infectious
diseases.
http://www.jhsph.edu/nationalassessment-health/health_final.pdf
WHO
WHO supports member states in protecting public
health from the impacts of climate change, and provides the health-sector
voice within the overall UN response to this global challenge.
http://www.who.int/globalchange/climate/en/chapter4.pdf
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The IPCC was established to provide the decision-makers
and others interested in climate change with an objective source
of information about climate change. IPCC has produced several
reports concerning the impacts and policy implications of climate
change. The possible impacts on human health are covered in chapter
8 of Working Group II Report, "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.”
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg2/ar4-wg2-chapter8.pdf
American
Statistical Association Endorses Conclusions
of the UN IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on Climate Change. Association
adopts statement on climate change, calls for expanding
the
scope of statistician involvement in climate change research.
www.amstat.org/pressroom/index.cfm?fuseaction=climatechange
Climate
Change and Human Health in the United States.
George
Luber, PhD, Jeremy Hess, MD, MPH. Journal
of Environmental Health, 2007.
Climate
Change and Human Health, Paul R. Epstein, M.D.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2005
Climate
Change: The Public Health Response. Howard Frumkin,
MD, DrPH,
Jeremy Hess, MD, MPH, George Luber, PhD, Josephine Malilay, PhD, MPH, and
Michael McGeehin, PhD, MSPH. Am J Public Health. 2008.
