How Will Climate Change Affect Human Health?

By Pim Martens

The question poses a huge challenge to scientists. Yet the consequences of global warming for public health remain largely unexplored

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November-December 1999

Volume 87, Number 6
Page 534

DOI: 10.1511/1999.42.534

One hears a great deal about the ominous consequences of global warming—melting ice caps, rising sea levels, torrential floods, devastating droughts and severe harvest failures—but one scarcely hears a word about the potential effects of climate change on public health.

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