Climate change and infectious diseases in Australia: future prospects, adaptation options, and research priorities
- Abstract
Climate change will have significant and diverse impacts on human health. These impacts will include changes in infectious disease incidence. In this article, the authors review the current situation and potential future climate change impacts for respiratory, diarrheal, and vector-borne diseases in Australia. Based on this review, the authors suggest adaptive strategies within the health sector and also recommend future research priorities.
- Resource Type
- Peer-reviewed article
- Authors
- David Harley Peng Bi Gillian Hall Ashwin Swaminathan Shilu Tong Craig Williams
- Resource URL
- http://aph.sagepub.com/content/23/2_suppl/54S
- Publication
- Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health / Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health
- Journal Abbr.
- Asia Pac J Public Health
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 2 Suppl
- Pages
- 54S-66
- Date
- Mar 2011
- DOI
- 10.1177/1010539510391660
- ISSN
- 1941-2479
- Short Title
- Climate change and infectious diseases in Australia
- Organization Type
- Academic
- Health and Human Impacts
- Infectious disease Respiratory disease Vector-borne disease
- Solution
- Climate adaptation/resilience
- Region
- International