Environmental Change, Climate and Health : Issues and Research Methods (Paperback)

1. Global environmental changes: anticipating and assessing risks to health A. J. McMichael and P. Martens; 2. Historical connections between climate, medical thought and human health A. G. Carmichael and M. Fleming Moran; 3. The contribution of global environmental factors to ill-health K. R. Smith and M. Desai; 4. Surprise, nonlinearity and complex behavior T. Awerbuch, A. E. Kiszewski and R. Levins; 5. Epidemilogic and impacts assessment methods K. L. Ebi and J. A. Patz; 6. Retrospective studies: analogue approaches describing climate variability and health R. S. Kovats and M. Bouma; 7. Detecting the infectious disease consequences of climate change and extreme weather events P. R. Epstein; 8. Integrated assessment modelling of human health impacts P. Martens, J. Rotmans and D. Rothman; 9. Remote sensing, GIS, and spatial statistics: powerful tools for landscape epidemiology L. R. Beck, U. Kitron and M. R. Bobo; 10. Monitoring the health impacts of global climate change D. H. Campbell-Lendrum, P. Wilkinson, K. Kuhn, R. S. Kovats, A. Haines, B. Menne and T. W. Parr; 11. Epidemiology, environmental health and global change A. Woodward; 12. Dealing with scientific uncertainties T. O. Riordan and A. J. McMichael.