| Hot Or Not?: Recognizing And Preparing For Climate-Induced Illness
McCormick, Sabrina
American Sociological Association, Web posted August 23, 2008, 40p
"Climate change is detrimentally affecting the lives and health of many people and is resulting in 160,000 annual deaths globally, caused by vector borne diseases, food insecurity, and heat waves." This report presents an analytical framework for the newly recognized and socially-contested category of “climate-induced illnesses.”
Sabrina McCormick is a health and society scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.
Go to the
report at:
http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=sabrina_mccormick
H8/01-09, Posted January 7, 2009
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