Global climate change and public health [electronic resource] / Kent E. Pinkerton, William N. Rom, editors.
Pinkerton, Kent Ed, 1950-, editor of compilation.; Rom, William N., editor of compilation.
2014
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Title Global climate change and public health [electronic resource] / Kent E. Pinkerton, William N. Rom, editors.
ISBN 9781461484172 electronic book
1461484170 electronic book
9781461484165
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8417-2
Published New York, NY : Humana Press, 2014
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 406 p.) : ill. (some col.)
Item Number 10.1007/978-1-4614-8417-2 doi
Call Number RA566
Dewey Decimal Classification 613/.1
Summary Pulmonary physicians and scientists currently have minimal capacity to respond to climate change and its impacts on health. The extent to which climate change influences the prevalence and incidence of respiratory morbidity remains largely undefined. However, evidence is increasing that climate change does drive respiratory disease onset and exacerbation as a result of increased ambient and indoor air pollution, desertification, heat stress, wildfires, and the geographic and temporal spread of pollens, molds and infectious agents. Preliminary research has revealed climate change to have potentially direct and indirect adverse impacts on respiratory health. Published studies have linked climate change to increases in respiratory disease, including the following: changing pollen releases impacting asthma and allergic rhinitis, heat waves causing critical care-related diseases, climate driven air pollution increases, exacerbating asthma and COPD, desertification increasing particulate matter (PM) exposures, and climate related changes in food and water security impacting infectious respiratory disease through malnutrition (pneumonia, upper respiratory infections). High level ozone and ozone exposure has been linked to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, lung cancer, and acute lower respiratory infection. Global Climate Change and Public Health is an important new volume based on the research, findings, and discussions of US and international experts on respiratory health and climate change. This volume addresses issues of major importance to respiratory health and fills a major gap in the current literature.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 1, 2013).
Added Author Pinkerton, Kent Ed, 1950-, editor of compilation.
Rom, William N., editor of compilation.
Series Respiratory medicine (New York, N.Y.)
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