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Climate change, dermatology and ecosystem services; trends and trade‐offs
Author(s) -
Muller Scott A.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1365-4632
pISSN - 0011-9059
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2011.04929.x
Subject(s) - climate change , medicine , adaptation (eye) , ecosystem services , dermatological diseases , public health , medline , environmental resource management , environmental planning , ecosystem , dermatology , ecology , pathology , political science , geography , physics , environmental science , law , optics , biology
Climate change is one of the defining issues for human well‐being in the 21st century. As several dermatological diseases have a high sensitivity to climate and ecologic change, dermatologists will have an increasingly important role in public health affairs. The International Society of Dermatology’s (ISD) establishment of a task force to track the impact of climate change on the incidence of dermatologic conditions is an example of scientific monitoring critical to future interdisciplinary adaptation and decision making to improve human well‐being.