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17126868

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-12-12
pubmed:abstractText
The potential impacts of climate change on human health are significant, ranging from direct effects such as heat stress and flooding, to indirect influences including changes in disease transmission and malnutrition in response to increased competition for crop and water resources. Development agencies and policy makers tasked with implementing adaptive strategies recognize the need to plan for these impacts. However at present there is little guidance on how to prioritize their funding to best improve the resilience of vulnerable communities. Here we address this issue by arguing that closer collaboration between the climate modelling and health communities is required to provide the focused information necessary to best inform policy makers. The immediate requirement is to create multidisciplinary research teams bringing together skills in both climate and health modelling. This will enable considerable information exchange, and closer collaboration will highlight current uncertainties and hopefully routes to their reduction. We recognize that climate is only one aspect influencing the highly complex behaviour of health and disease issues. However we are optimistic that climate-health model simulations, including uncertainty bounds, will provide much needed estimates of the likely impacts of climate change on human health.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0035-9203
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
101
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
97-103
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Impact of climate change on health: what is required of climate modellers?
pubmed:affiliation
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX10 8BB, UK. chg@ceh.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't