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Climate change and global infectious disease threats
Author(s) -
Jackson Erwin K
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1995.tb124754.x
Subject(s) - climate change , delegate , global warming , infectious disease (medical specialty) , political science , global health , geography , development economics , disease , medicine , ecology , economics , law , biology , health care , pathology , computer science , programming language
The world's climate is warming up and, while debate continues about how much change we can expect, it is becoming clear that even small changes in climate can have major effects on the spread of disease. Erwin K Jackson, a member of Greenpeace International's Climate Impacts Unit and a delegate to the 11th session of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Rome, 11‐15 December), reviews the scientific evidence of this new global threat to health.