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978828
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b733198
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Henningfeld, Diane Andrews.
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Health and disease /\ Diane Andrews Henningfeld ; Michael E. Mann, consulting editor.
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Detroit :: Greenhaven Press,, ©2011.
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Confronting global warming
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136 pages :: color illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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0737748583
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: 9780737748581
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Chapter 5: Impact Of Diminished Air Quality On Health: -- Global warming and air quality -- Ozone: friend and foe -- Ozone is a serious threat to health -- Sidebar: Global warming may be spurring allergy and asthma -- Smog and air quality -- Particular matter: sources and spread -- Health effects of smog and particulate pollution -- Aero-allergens and health -- Table: Air pollution and health -- Life's breath: air quality in a warming world -- Mitigating harmful effects -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Global Warming And Infectious Disease: -- Vector-borne and zoontic illnesses -- Sidebar: Dengue fever on the rise -- Increase in water-borne and food-borne diseases -- Diagram: Malaria life cycle -- Increase in fungal diseases -- Global warming and forced migration -- Debate over global warming and infectious diseases -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Food And Water: Access And Safety: -- Food availability and access -- Sidebar: Global warming causes malnutrition -- Food, health, and disease -- Controversy over genetically modified food -- Water availability and access -- Soaring demand for water -- Coping strategies for a thirsty world -- Chart: Water facts and figures -- Food and water safety in a warming world -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Melting Ice And Rising Sea Levels: Impacts On Health: -- Projecting global sea rise -- Sidebar: Land-based ice, sea ice, and rising oceans -- Past offers a clue to the present -- Coastal areas are densely populated and at risk -- Health risks of seawater incursion -- Losing homes to rising seas -- Graph: Worldwide impact of a one-meter sea-level rise -- Rising sea levels: melting ice, and indigenous Arctic peoples -- Coping with rising seas -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Impact Of Global Warming On Health: Conclusion: -- Young and the old are at risk -- Poor people and poor countries suffer the most -- Sidebar: What is the IPCC? -- Mitigation and adaption -- Notes -- Glossary -- For further research -- Index -- About the author.
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Preface -- Foreword -- Chapter 1: Health And Disease In A Warming World: An Overview: -- Why global warming is alarming -- Human health and global warming: a complex relationship -- Health threats of heat and drought -- Extreme weather: hurricanes and floods -- Sidebar: Hurricane Mitch: a case study in complexity -- Health threats of air pollution and infectious disease -- Food and water: access and safety -- Health effects of rising sea levels and melting ice -- Diagram: Relationship between climate change and health -- Preparing for a warmer world -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Direct Temperature Effects Of Global Warming On Health: -- Effects of extreme temperatures on human health -- Severe heat waves are increasing -- Sidebar: Quiet catastrophe: the European heat wave of 2003 -- Heat waves and human mortality and morbidity -- Danger of heat waves and the urban heat island for aging populations -- Graph: Projected heat wave deaths in American cities -- Mitigating the dangers of extreme heat events -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Aridity And Human Health: Drought, Desertification, And Wildfires: -- Drought and desertification: threats to health -- Map: Risk of death from drought -- Drought: Precursor to malnutrition and famine -- Drought, dust storms, and health -- Global warming, drought, and wildfires -- Global warming, drought, and wildfires -- Sidebar: Greece on fire -- Coping with the effects of drought, aridity, and wildfires -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Extreme Weather And Health: Hurricanes And Floods: -- Direct threats to health from extreme weather -- Indirect threats to health from extreme weather -- Sidebar: Hurricane Katrina: Worst natural disaster in U S history -- Water contamination and shortages -- Long-lasting health effects of extreme weather -- Health risks of evacuations and refugee status -- Mental health suffers because of extreme weather -- Graph: Billion-dollar U S weather disasters, 1980-2008 -- Poor suffer the most health risks -- Preventing the most serious health risks -- Notes.
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Overview: Explores the effects of global warming on human health, examining the impacts of extreme cold snaps; issues arising from aridity; the health dangers posed by hurricanes and floods; diminished air capacity from smog, pollution, the ozone, and aero-allergens; global warming and infectious disease; food security and food safety.
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Climatic changes-- Health aspects.
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Environmentally induced diseases.
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Extreme weather-- Health aspects.
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Global warming-- Health aspects.
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Medical climatology.
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Climate change-- Health aspects.
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Climatic changes-- Health aspects.
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Environmentally induced diseases.
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Environmentally induced diseases.
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Global warming-- Health aspects.
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Global warming-- Health aspects.
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Medical climatology.
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Weather-- Health aspects.
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| Dewey Classification
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363.738/74
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RA793.H46 2011
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