Research priorities & global burden of disease
general reports
Background reviews
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Protecting health from climate change: Connecting science, policy and people
(2009) -
Climate change and human health - risks and responses
Book. WHO in cooperation with WMO and UNEP (2003) -
Climate change and human health - risks and responses. Summary
Book summary. WHO in cooperation with WMO and UNEP (2003) -
Climate change and human health: impact and adaptation [pdf, 284 kb]
Report. WHO (2000) -
Climate change and human health: an assessment [pdf 1.56Mb]
Report. WHO (1996) -
Potential health effects on climatic change [pdf 2.42Mb]
Report. WHO (1990)
Thematic discussion papers & articles
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GENDER - Gender, climate change and health
Draft discussion paper -
COBENEFITS OF CLIMATE MITIGATION - The health benefits of tackling climate change
An executive summary for the Lancet Series -
HEALTH SECTOR GREENING - Healthy hospitals, healthy planet, healthy people: Addressing climate change in healthcare settings
(WHO 2009) -
CLIMATE EARLY-WARNING Using climate to predict infectious disease epidemics
Article in Journal of Urban Health 84 (WHO 2007)
Research priorities & global burden of disease
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Protecting health from climate change: Global research priorities
(WHO 2009) -
Global Climate Change. Chapter in Ezzati et al, Comparative Quantification of Health Risks
pdf, 411kb
(WHO 2004) - WHO workshop on research priorities for climate change and health in urban settings (November 2008) [pdf 242kb]
Policy documents & discussion
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Executive Board - Climate change and health [pdf 150kb]
Report by the WHO Secretariat to the Executive Board (2008) -
Climate change is affecting our health
Something should be done now - (2009) -
The Year 2008 - A Breakthrough Year for Health Protection from Climate Change?
pdf, 46kb
American Journal of Preventive Medicine 35, (2008) - Protecting health from climate change: Report for World Health Day 2008
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Global climate change: implications for international health policy
Article in Bulletin of the World Health Organization 85, (2007) -
Planet Earth, getting too hot for health? [pdf, 112 kb]
Article. Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, vol. 79, issue 11 (2001)
Regional workshop reports
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Climate variability and change and their health effects in Pacific Island countries
pdf, 102kb
Pacific Islands (Samoa/July 25-28 2000) -
Human health impacts from climate variability and climate change in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya Region : A report of an Interregional Workshop, India, October 2005. (Revised Edition, 2006)
Hindu-Kush Region (India/October 3-7 2005) - Small Islands Synthesis (Maldives/Dec 1-4 2003) [pdf 4.7Mb]
Urban health
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Climate change and developing-country cities: implications for environmental health and equity
Article in Journal of Urban Health 84, (2007) - City health system preparedness for changes in dengue fever reasonably attributable to climate change:an exploratory case study of Bangkok [pdf 535kb]
- Climate change exposures, chronic diseases and mental health in urban populations:a threat to health security, particularly for the poor and disadvantaged [pdf 2.62Mb]
