Detecting and Attributing Health Burdens to Climate Change

Conclusions:
The results of detection and attribution studies can inform evidence-based risk management to reduce current, and plan for future, changes in health risks associated with climate change. Gaining a better understanding of the size, timing, and distribution of the climate change burden of disease and injury requires reliable long-term data sets, more knowledge about the factors that confound and modify the effects of climate on health, and refinement of analytic techniques for detection and attribution. At the same time, significant advances are possible in the absence of complete data and statistical certainty: there is a place for well-informed judgments, based on understanding of underlying processes and matching of patterns of health, climate, and other determinants of human well-being. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP1509

Received: 21 December 2016
Revised: 31 March 2017
Accepted: 17 April 2017
Published: 07 August 2017
Please address correspondence to K.L. Ebi, Dept. of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA. Telephone: [phone]. Email: [e-mail]
The authors declare they have no actual or potential competing financial interests.
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Source: EHP Research - August 7, 2017 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Daniil Lyalko Tags: Commentary Source Type: research