Managing the health effects of climate change

• Published in: The Lancet (British edition) Vol. 373; no. 9676; pp. 1693 - 1733
• Main Authors: Costello, Anthony, Prof, Abbas, Mustafa, Allen, Adriana, PhD, Ball, Sarah, BSc, Bell, Sarah, PhD, Bellamy, Richard, Prof, Friel, Sharon, PhD, Groce, Nora, Prof, Johnson, Anne, Prof, Kett, Maria, PhD, Lee, Maria, Prof, Levy, Caren, MA, Maslin, Mark, Prof, McCoy, David, DrPH, McGuire, Bill, Prof, Montgomery, Hugh, MD, Napier, David, Prof, Pagel, Christina, PhD, Patel, Jinesh, BSc, de Oliveira, Jose Antonio Puppim, PhD, Redclift, Nanneke, Prof, Rees, Hannah, Rogger, Daniel, MPhil, Scott, Joanne, Prof, Stephenson, Judith, Prof, Twigg, John, PhD, Wolff, Jonathan, Prof, Patterson, Craig, LLB
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 16-05-2009; Elsevier; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Biological and medical sciences; Climate change; Climate effects; Community; Disease; Drinking water; General aspects; Global health; Global warming; Health services; Internal Medicine; Medical sciences; Miscellaneous; Mortality; Municipal government; Population growth; Poverty; Private enterprise; Public health; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Technological change; Urban health care; Dynamical climatology; Medicine; Climate change; Health status; Public health
• ISSN: 0140-6736; 1474-547X
• DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60935-1

[...] policies must be adopted to reduce carbon emissions and to increase carbon biosequestration, and thereby slow down global warming and eventually stabilise temperatures. [...] appropriate public health systems should be put into place to deal with adverse outcomes.