Malaria Risk and Temperature: Influences from Global Climate Change and Local Land Use Practices

Malaria Risk and Temperature: Influences from Global Climate Change and Local Land Use Practices

Malaria is an extremely climate-sensitive tropical disease, making the assessment of potential change in risk due to past and projected warming trends one of the most important climate change/health questions to resolve. Researchers now provide important new insights toward answering this malaria/cl...

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Veröffentlicht in:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS 2006-04, Vol.103 (15), p.5635-5636
Hauptverfasser: Patz, Jonathan A., Olson, Sarah H.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Africa, Eastern - epidemiology
Agriculture - trends
Climate change
Climate models
Commentaries
Forest habitats
Global climate models
Global warming
Greenhouse Effect
Highlands
Humans
Insect larvae
Malaria
Malaria - epidemiology
Malaria - mortality
Malaria - transmission
Mosquitos
Parasites
Risk assessment
Risk Factors
Temperature
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Zusammenfassung:Malaria is an extremely climate-sensitive tropical disease, making the assessment of potential change in risk due to past and projected warming trends one of the most important climate change/health questions to resolve. Researchers now provide important new insights toward answering this malaria/climate question.
ISSN:0027-8424
1091-6490
DOI:10.1073/pnas.0601493103