Pandemics in a Changing Climate: Evolving Risk and the Global Response

Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. 05/26/2016This 31-page report examines the link between climate change and public health, and the implications of climate change on global pandemic risk. It includes a section that focuses on channels that will increase vulnerability of human populations to zoonotic and vector-borne diseases, which are two disease groups that are of particular concern because they are climate sensitive, and comprise the majority of emerging or re-emerging infectious diseases. (PDF)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - June 16, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news