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Global climate change and children's health: threats and strategies for prevention
- Reviews projected impacts of climate change on children's health, the pathways involved in these effects, and prevention strategies
- Assesses primary studies, review articles, and organizational reports
- Finds that in the year 2000 climate change was responsible for > 150,000 deaths worldwide and that 88 percent of the disease burden fell on children
- States that documented health effects include changing ranges of vector-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue; increased diarrheal and respiratory disease; increased morbidity and mortality from extreme weather; changed exposures to toxic chemicals; worsened poverty; food and physical insecurity; and threats to human habitation
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