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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814584203321

Titolo

Climate change and rural child health / / Erica Bell, Bastian M. Seidel and Joav Merrick, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2011

ISBN

1-61209-014-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Collana

Health and human development

Altri autori (Persone)

BellErica, Dr.

SeidelBastian M

MerrickJoav <1950->

Disciplina

616.9/88

Soggetti

Medical climatology

Climatic changes - Health aspects

Rural children - Health and hygiene

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : climate change and rural child health / Erica Bell, Bastian M. Seidel and Joav Merrick -- Climate change impacts will be pervasive / Michael C. MacCracken -- Climate and child health in rural areas of low and middle income countries / Angela Baschieri and Sari Kovats -- Protecting our health and environment / Cheryl C. Macpherson -- Impact of global climate change on childrens' health and well-being / Jeffrey Goldhagen -- Climate change and child health in Australia / Lyndall Strazdins, Sharon Friel, Anthony McMichael, et al. -- Warming up to the embodied context of First Nations child health research / Margot W. Parkes, Sarah de Leeuw, and Margot Greenwood --

Healthy children and a healthy planet : a role for education / Susan M. Cooke ... [et al.] -- Climate change and diarrhoeal disease : perspectives for development policies / Kirsten Halsnæs and Tullik H.Y. Føyn -- Flooding and infectious disease in rural children / Colleen Lau and Philip Weinstein -- Climate change effects on trematode and nematode diseases affecting children in rural areas of developing countries / Santiago Mas-Coma, M. Adela Valero, and M. Dolores Bargues -- Impacts of climate change on aeroallergens and allergic respiratory diseases in children in rural areas / Paul John Beggs --



Challenges and solutions in the provision of health to the rural Bedouin population in southern Israel / Jacob Urkin, Said Alsana, and Joav Merrick --

Meat, climate change, and global child health / John Powles -- Climate adversity : yet another stressor for rural adolescents / Helen J. Stain ... [et al.] -- The effect of climate change on children living on Pacific islands / Emma Britton and Philippa Howden-Chapman -- From typhoid to tsunamis : Samoan children in a changing world / Graeme Lindsay, Teuila Percival, and Alistair Woodward -- Social-ecological resilience and Inuit child health / Karen Morrison and David Waltner-Toews -- The global financial crisis, climate change, and rural child health / Erica Bell -- Australia, 'lucky country' or 'climate change canary' : her children's future / Elizabeth G. Hanna ... [et al.].