3-3: Global Change and Human Health

Short Summaries of Recent Research

• Malaria Deaths and the Use of DDT
  
  
• Climate Change and Malaria
  
  
• Intercontinental Transport of Dust and Pathogens
  
  
• Special focus on malaria.
  
  
• Evidence of Climate Connections to the Return of Infectious Diseases.
  
  
• Pamphlets and Press Releases from the American Academy of Dermatology.
  
  

Websites

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  
  
• Global Change and Health
  
  
• Spread of major vector-borne diseases
  
  
• Potential dengue transmission in case of temperature rise
  
  
• Spread of malaria
  
  
• CIESIN Thematic Guide: Health Effects from Increased Exposure to Ultraviolet-B (UV-B) Radiation due to Stratospheric Ozone Depletion
  
  
• CIESIN Thematic Guide: Human Health and Global Change
  
  
• Climate, Ecology and Human Health, from Consequences Magazine
  
  
• Global total of countries reporting incidences of infectious diseases.
  
  
• Guidelines on Ozone Monitoring Site Selection, EPA. (pdf file)
  
  
• Ozone Science: A Canadian Perspective
  
  
• Environmental Health Perspectives
  
  
• Melanoma Patients' Information Page
  
  
• American Meteorology Society Journals
  
  
• Malaria Foundation International
  
  

Additional References

• Akimoto, H, 2003: Global air quality and pollution. Science, 302, 1716-1719.
  
  
• UV Index and Sun protection.
  
  
• Patz, J. A., M. Hulme, C. Rosenzweig, T. D. Mitchell, R. A. Goldberg, A. K. Githeco, S. Lele, A. J. McMichael, and D. Le Sueur, 2002 : Regional warming and malaria resurgence. Nature, 420, 627-628.
  
  
• Dye, C. and P. Reiter, 2000: Temperatures without fevers? Science, 289, 1697-1698.
  
  
• Rogers, D.J. and S. E. Randolph, 2000: The global spread of malaria in a future, warmer world. Science, 289, 1763-1766.
  
  
• Pascual, M., X. Rodo, S. P. Ellner, R. Colwell, and M. J. Bouma, 2000: Cholera dynamics and El Nino-Southern Oscillation. Science, 289, 1766-1769.
  
  
• Patz, J. A., M. A. McGeehin, S. M. Bernard, K. L. Ebi, P. R. Epstein, A. Grambsch, D. J. Gubler, P. Reiter, I. Romieu, J. B. Rose, J. M. Samet, and J. Trtanj, 2000: The potential health impacts of climate varibility and change for the United States: Executive summary of the report of the health sector of the U.S. National Assessment. Environmental Health Perspectives, 108, 367-376.
  
  
• Patz, Jonathan A., Paul R. Epstein, Thomas A. Burke, and John M. Balbus, 1996: Global Climate Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases. Journal of American Medical Association, 275, 217-223.
  
  
• Wendler, G., and T. Quakenbush, 1996: UV radiation in the southern seas inearly spring 1993. Theor. Appl. Climatol., 53, 221-230.
  
  
• Stanford, J. L. and J. R. Ziemke, 1996: A Practical Method for Predicting Midlatitude Total Column Ozone From Operational Forecast Temperature. J. Geophys. Res., 101, 28,769-28,773.
  
  
• Stanford, J. L., J. R. Ziemke, R. D. McPeters, A. J. Krueger, and P. K. Bhartia, 1995: Spectral Analyses, Climatology, and Interannual Variability of Nimbus-7 TOMS Version 6 Total Column Ozone. NASA Reference Publication 1360, April, 80 pp.
  
  
• Jeevan, A., and M. L. Kripke, 1993: Ozone Depletion and the Immune System. The Lancet, 342, 1159-1160.