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Your Environment. Your Health.

Climate Change and Human Health Literature Portal Climate variability, global change, immunity, and the dynamics of infectious diseases

Climate Change and Human Health Literature Portal

Author(s):
Dobson A
Year:
2009
Journal:
Ecology. 90 (4): 920-927
Abstract:

Global climate change will have a diversity of impacts on ecological systems. The paper by Lafferty (Lafferty 2009) provides a number of important insights into the ways in which climate change will modify the dynamics of infectious diseases. Here I will focus on three aspects that pick up on his theme that any simple links between climate change and rates of disease transmission will be complicated by the web of ecological interactions within which host-parasite relationships are intimately embedded (Lafferty et al. 2006).

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Resource Description

Exposure What is this?

weather or climate related pathway by which climate change affects health

    Ecosystem Change
Geographic Feature What is this?

resource focuses on specific type of geography

    Polar, Tropical
Geographic Location What is this?

resource focuses on specific location

    Global or Unspecified Location
Health Impact What is this?

specification of health effect or disease related to climate change exposure

    Infectious Disease
Model/Methodology What is this?

type of model used or methodology development is a focus of resource

    Outcome Change Prediction
Resource Type What is this?

format or standard characteristic of resource

    Research Article
Special Topic What is this?

related topics that intersect with those captured in other filters

    Adaptation
    • Adaptation: Adaptation Co-Benefit/Co-Harm
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