US Climate and Health Alliance

CDC Grand Rounds: Climate Change and Health – From Science to Practice

Abstract

Changes occurring in the world’s climate pose significant threats to human health and wellbeing and will have even greater impacts in the future. These threats are wide-ranging, including decreased air quality and increases in extreme weather events, wildfire, and illnesses transmitted by water, and disease-carriers, such as mosquitoes and ticks.Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: http://www.cdc.gov/SocialMedia/Tools/…This video can also be viewed at http://www.cdc.gov/cdcgrandrounds/vid…

Resource Type
Audio/video/movie clip
Director
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Resource URL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V_0JaE2Gz0
Date
December 19, 2014
Short Title
CDC Grand Rounds
Running Time
3524 seconds
Organization Type
Us fed gov
Health and Human Impacts
Infectious disease Overview/general Vector-borne disease
Climate and Environmental Impact
Overview/general
Solution
Public health/health sector response

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