From advocacy to action: Projecting the health impacts of climate change

Hannah Nissan; Declan Conway

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002624

From advocacy to action: Projecting the health impacts of climate change

PLoS Med. 2018 Jul 31;15(7):e1002624. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002624. eCollection 2018 Jul.

Authors

Hannah Nissan¹, Declan Conway²

Affiliations

¹ International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America.
² Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom.

Abstract

In a Perspective, Hannah Nissan and Declan Conway discuss the implications of uncertainty about projected impacts of climate change on health.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Climate Change* / mortality
Environmental Monitoring
Forecasting
Global Health / trends*
Health Status Indicators
Health Status*
Humans
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors
Time Factors

Grants and funding

DC acknowledges support from the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ES/K006576/1) for the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP). HN acknowledged funding support from the Earth Institute at Columbia University and from the UK Fulbright Commission. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.