Climate change and respiratory diseases

Climate change and respiratory diseases.

Affiliations: Division of Respiratory and Allergic Diseases, Dept of Respiratory Diseases, High Speciality Hospital Antonio Cardarelli, Naples, Italy. University of Florence, Florence, Italy. First Division of Pneumology, High Speciality Hospital ‘‘V. Monaldi’’ and University ‘‘Federico II’’ Medical School, Naples, Italy. EPAR, UMR-S 1136, Institute Pierre Louis of Epidemiology and Public Healt...

Letter to Editor: Climate Change and Waterborne Diseases

Climate change and forest diseases

R. N. Sturrock*, S. J. Frankel, A. V. Brown, P. E. Hennon, J. T. Kliejunas, K. J. Lewis, J. J. Worrall and A. J. Woods Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, 506 West Burnside Road, Victoria, British Columbia, V8Z 1M5, Canada; USDA-Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, California 94710, USA; UK Forestry Commission, ...

Climate change and infectious diseases

Global changes are major determinants for infectious diseases, although attributable, part of climate change remains debatable. Vector-borne diseases are prone to be impacted by global warming, although other factors may play a substantial role, evidenced by the dramatic decrease in malaria in the last decades in places where climate change has deep and significant effects. There is now evidenc...

Climate change and infectious diseases

The previous chapter considered how short-term variations in climatic conditions and extreme weather events can exert direct effects on human death rates, physical injury, mental health and other health outcomes. Changes in mean climatic conditions and climate variability also can affect human health via indirect pathways, particularly via changes in biological and ecological processes that inf...