Environmental Health | Special Issue on the impact of climate change on health in the UK
Special Issue on the impact of climate change on health in the UK
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Publication of this supplement has not been supported by sponsorship. Information about the source of funding for publication charges can be found in the individual articles. The articles have undergone the journal's standard peer review process for supplements. The Supplement Editor declares that they have no competing interests. Dr Sari Kovats, Department of Social and Environmental Research in the Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and LWEC fellow, organized this project and supplement.
Edited by Kristie L. Ebi.
Content Type:Review
It is widely acknowledged that the climate is warming globally and within the UK. In this paper, studies which assess the direct impact of current increased temperatures and heat-waves on health and those whic...
Authors:Katherine G. Arbuthnott and Shakoor Hajat
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Cold-related mortality and morbidity remains an important public health problem in the UK and elsewhere. Health burdens have often reported to be higher in the UK compared to other countries with colder climat...
Authors:Shakoor Hajat
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This review, commissioned by the Research Councils UK Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) programme, concerns research on the impacts on health and social care systems in the United Kingdom of extreme weat...
Authors:Sarah Curtis, Alistair Fair, Jonathan Wistow, Dimitri V. Val and Katie Oven
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This review examines the current literature on the effects of future emissions and climate change on particulate matter (PM) and O3 air quality and on the consequent health impacts, with a focus on Europe. There ...
Authors:Ruth M. Doherty, Mathew R. Heal and Fiona M. O’Connor
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Climate is one of several causes of disease emergence. Although half or more of infectious diseases are affected by climate it appears to be a relatively infrequent cause of human disease emergence. Climate mo...
Authors:Matthew Baylis
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This review examined the likely impact of climate change upon food-borne disease in the UK using Campylobacter and Salmonella as example organisms. Campylobacter is an important food-borne disease and an increasi...
Authors:Iain R. Lake
Content Type:Review
This article examines how social and health inequalities shape the health impacts of climate change in the UK, and what the implications are for climate change adaptation and health care provision. The evidenc...
Authors:Jouni Paavola
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The impacts of climate on health and wellbeing occur in time and space and through a range of indirect, complicated mechanisms. This diversity of pathways has major implications for national public health plan...
Authors:George Paterson Morris, Stefan Reis, Sheila Anne Beck, Lora Elderkin Fleming, William Neil Adger, Timothy Guy Benton and Michael Harold Depledge
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