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Open AccessClimate Change and Cascading Risks from Infectious Disease
Climate change is adversely affecting the burden of infectious disease throughout the world, which is a health security threat. Climate-sensitive infectious disease includes vector-borne diseases such as malar...
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Climate Change Pathways and Potential Future Risks to Nutrition and Infection
Climate change is a recognized theme of the twenty-first century, affecting both nutrition and infection by multiple pathways and mechanisms. This chapter outlines the linkages between climate change, nutritio...
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Vector-Borne Diseases in a Changing Climate and World
One of the most important global effects of climate change is likely to be on infectious diseases, especially those transmitted by insect vectors (e.g., mosquitos, ticks) that strongly depend on a specific cli...
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Open AccessAchieving a 25% reduction in premature non-communicable disease mortality: the Swedish population as a cohort study
The 2012 World Health Assembly set a target for Member States to reduce premature non-communicable disease (NCD) mortality by 25% over the period 2010 to 2025. This reflected concerns about increasing NCD mort...
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Potential Distribution of Dengue Fever Under Scenarios of Climate Change and Economic Development
Dengue fever is the most important viral vector-borne disease with ~50 million cases per year globally. Previous estimates of the potential effect of global climate change on the distribution of vector-borne d...
