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10 - Monitoring the health impacts of global climate change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Diarmid H. Campbell-Lendrum
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases, Department London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Paul Wilkinson
Affiliation:
Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Katrin Kuhn
Affiliation:
Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
R. Sari Kovats
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Andy Haines
Affiliation:
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Bettina Menne
Affiliation:
WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, Rome Division, Rome, Italy
Terry W. Parr
Affiliation:
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Merlewood, UK
P. Martens
Affiliation:
Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
A. J. McMichael
Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra
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Introduction

As the processes of global environmental change proceed, the importance of monitoring health outcomes of climate change increases (e.g. Haines. et al, 1993; Haines, 1999). Accurate, reliable and comparable data are necessary for detecting and quantifying the early impacts of these changes on health, and as an essential first step towards planned adaptation to minimize adverse health impacts in a future, environmentally changed, world (McMichael et al., 1996; Balbus, 1998).

These issues are well illustrated by recent developments in relation to global climate change. This chapter developed from a report of a working group convened by the World Health Organization, European Centre for Environment and Health (WHO-ECEH), which prepared a background document for the Third Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, held in London in June 1999. The document pointed to the need for the monitoring of potential impacts of climate change on human health, and highlighted the potential role of long-term integrated monitoring sites in investigating links between anthropogenic climate change, natural ecosystems and human health.

This chapter also draws on work of the NoLIMITS (Networking of Long term Integrated Monitoring Sites), preparatory action of the European Union ENRICH (European Network for Research in Global Change) programme. NoLIMITS aims to link current environmental monitoring sites throughout Europe, to make available policy-relevant scientific information to address environmental changes and their consequences at local to global scales, to provide a focus for collaborative interdisciplinary research between sites, networks and users, and to explore the possibility of introducing new measurements at existing monitoring sites to meet specific scientific and policy needs.

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Environmental Change, Climate and Health
Issues and Research Methods
, pp. 253 - 289
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2002

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  • Monitoring the health impacts of global climate change
    • By Diarmid H. Campbell-Lendrum, Infectious Diseases, Department London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Paul Wilkinson, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Katrin Kuhn, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, R. Sari Kovats, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Andy Haines, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Bettina Menne, WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, Rome Division, Rome, Italy, Terry W. Parr, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Merlewood, UK
  • Edited by P. Martens, Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands, A. J. McMichael, Australian National University, Canberra
  • Book: Environmental Change, Climate and Health
  • Online publication: 28 July 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511535987.011
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    • By Diarmid H. Campbell-Lendrum, Infectious Diseases, Department London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Paul Wilkinson, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Katrin Kuhn, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, R. Sari Kovats, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Andy Haines, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Bettina Menne, WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, Rome Division, Rome, Italy, Terry W. Parr, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Merlewood, UK
  • Edited by P. Martens, Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands, A. J. McMichael, Australian National University, Canberra
  • Book: Environmental Change, Climate and Health
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  • Monitoring the health impacts of global climate change
    • By Diarmid H. Campbell-Lendrum, Infectious Diseases, Department London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Paul Wilkinson, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Katrin Kuhn, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, R. Sari Kovats, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Andy Haines, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Bettina Menne, WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, Rome Division, Rome, Italy, Terry W. Parr, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Merlewood, UK
  • Edited by P. Martens, Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands, A. J. McMichael, Australian National University, Canberra
  • Book: Environmental Change, Climate and Health
  • Online publication: 28 July 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511535987.011
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