CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL HEALTH
Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Effects
Editors: Colin D Butler and Kerryn Higgs
“By surveying the terrain so comprehensively Butler has delivered an invaluable resource for both new- and not-so-new comers to the field that will, I hope, lead to greater appreciation among health workers and wider audiences of the catastrophic consequences for human health of even 20 C of global warming (and noting that a paper produced in the New Scientist during the week that I write this claims that we are already halfway there).”
Sainsbury, Peter. "Climate Change and Global Health." (2016): 198-198.
Professor Peter Sainsbury
FIRST EDITION
Climate Change and Global Health
ABOUT THE BOOK
Edited by Colin David Butler
There is increasing understanding, globally, that climate change will have profound and mostly harmful effects on human health. This authoritative book brings together international experts to describe both direct (such as heat waves) and indirect (such as vector-borne disease incidence) impacts of climate change, set in a broad, international, economic, political and environmental context. This unique book also expands on these issues to address a third category of potential longer-term impacts on global health: famine, population dislocation, and conflict. This lively yet scholarly resource explores these issues fully, linking them to health in urban and rural settings in developed and developing countries. The book finishes with a practical discussion of action that health professionals can yet take.
AUTHORS
The editor is grateful for the valuable expertise of the following authors to various chapters of the book. Contact details and affiliations shown here were up-to-date at the moment of publishing, but may vary from authors' current affiliations.
1. Dr Adeladza K. Amegah, Public Health Research Group, Dept Biomedical Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences, Univ of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
2. Dr Godson Ana, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
3. Professor Hilary Bambrick, Centre for Health Research, School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, NSW, Australia.
4. Associate Professor Paul J. Beggs, Department of Environment and Geography, Faculty of Science, Macquarie University, NSW , Australia.
5. Bernard Bett, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi Kenya.
6. Dr Menno Bouma, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
7. Dr Kathryn Bowen, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT Australia.
8. Dr Devin C. Bowles, Visitor National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT Australia.
9. Dr Mark Braidwood, Sydney, Australia.
10. Dr Bianca Brijnath, School of Occupational Therapy and Social Work, Faculty of Health Sciences,
Curtin University, Kent Street, Bentley, Perth, WA, Australia.
11. Professor Colin D. Butler, Faculty of Health, The University of Canberra, University Drive, Bruce, ACT 2617, Australia, and Visiting Fellow, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia, and Medical Director, Benevolent Organisation for Development, Health & Insight (BODHI).
12. Professor Guéladio Cissé, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, Socinstrasse 57, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland.
13. Professor Ulisses Confalonieri, CPqRR – Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), LAESA, Barro Preto - Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
14. Professor Kristie L. Ebi School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
15. Professor Marilyn Aparicio Effen, Climate Change, Environmental and Health Unit, Instituto Boliviano de Biologia de Altura (IBBA), Facultad de Medicina – Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia.
16. Professor Birgitta Evengård, Arctic Research Center (ARCUM), Division of Infectious Diseases, Umeå University, Sweden.
17. Emeritus Professor Ole Faergeman, Emeritus Professor of Preventive Cardiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
18. Dr Delia Grace, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.
19. Dr Matthew Haigh, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Russell Square, London, UK.
20. Professor Sir Andy Haines, Department of Social & Environmental Health Research (SEHR), Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, UK.
21. Dr Shakoor Hajat, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15–17 Tavistock Place, London, UK.
Simon Hales, Research Associate Professor, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand.
22. Dr Elizabeth G. Hanna, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT Australia.
23. Professor Yasushi Honda, Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba Japan.
24. Professor Jouni J.K. Jaakkola, Professor and Director, Center for Environmental and Respiratory Health Research, University of Oulu, Finland.
25. Professor Shinjiro Kanae, Department of Civil Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
26. Professor Patrick Kinney, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
27. Professor Tord Kjellstrom, Director, Health and Environment International Trust, Nelson, New Zealand.New Zealand
28. Dr Bruno Lemke, School of Health, Nelson-Marlborough Institute of Technology, Nelson, New Zealand.
29. Dr. Rebekah Lucas, School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
30. Associate Professor Lachlan McIver, Tropical Medicine & Communicable Disease Control College
of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD,Australia.
31. Professor A.J. (Tony) McMichael, Emeritus Professor (Population Health), The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. (deceased September 2014)
32. Dr. Andrew Mathieson, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.
33. Ms Haruka Morita, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
34. Dr Nick H. Ogden, Senior Research Scientist, Zoonoses Division, Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada.
35. Professor Taikan Oki, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
36. Matthias Otto, School of Health, Nelson-Marlborough Institute of Technology, Nelson, New Zealand.
37. Dr Lisa Page, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Brighton and Sussex Medical School; and Mental Health Liaison Team, Brighton, East Sussex, UK.
38. Dr Alan J. Parkinson, Deputy Director, Arctic Investigations Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
39. Professor Mercedes Pascual, University of Chicago, MI USA; and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA.
40. Professor Germán Poveda, Department of Geosciences and Environment, Facultad de Minas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia.
41. Dr Ana Flávia Quintão, Escola de Saúde Pública do Estado de Minas Gerais (ESP-MG), Barro Preto, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, 30.190-002, Brazil.
42. Professor Mala Rao OBE Senior Clinical Fellow, Department of Primary Care and Public Health,
School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK
43. Professor Rafael Reuveny, Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
44. Dr Horacio Riojas, Director de Salud Ambiental, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Av. Universidad, CP 62100, Cuernavaca Morelos, México.
45. Dr Subhashis Sahu, Ergonomics and Occupational Physiology Laboratory, Department of Physiology, University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India.
46. Professor Jan C. Semenza, Head of Health Determinants Programme, Office of the Chief Scientist, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden.
47. Dr Manpreet Singh, Dalberg Global Development Advisors, Nairobi, Kenya.
48. Byron Smith, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh, EH1 2LX, Scotland, UK; and Sydney, NSW Australia.
49. Professor Will Steffen, Adjunct Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia; and Guest Researcher, The Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden.
50. Dr Robin Stott, Climate and Health Council, UK.
51. Dr Lucy Telfar Barnard, Postdoctoral Fellow, He Kainga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme, Department of Public Health, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand.
52. Professor Vidhya Venugopal, Professor and Head (Industrial Hygiene Services), Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
53. Professor Mark L. Wahlqvist AO, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Monash University, Australia; and Visiting Professor, Institute of Population Health Science, National Health Research Institute, Taiwan; and Director, Fuli Institute of Food Science, Zhejiang University, China.
54. Dr Sue Wareham OAM, Vice President, Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia), Canberra, Australia.
55. Dr Haylee J. Weaver, School of Science, Education and Engineering (Building J), University of the Sunshine Coast, Locked Bag 4, Maroochydore DC, QLD, Australia.
“These are weighty issues, and you would need to go elsewhere (Roger Pielke’s The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics for instance) for a nuanced analysis of the roles that science can have in policy formation. But it is notable, and I think refreshing, that what might otherwise be a rather dry review of mechanisms and impacts of climate change wades into the difficult and terribly important question of how to bring about fundamental social change. The longer we wait, the more painful and difficult it will be to turn around the global industrial machine and its effects on our planet. The Rockefeller Foundation– Lancet Commission on Planetary Health summed up the urgency this way: “our societies face clear and potent dangers that require urgent and transformative actions to protect present and future generations”. Butler’s book is a passionate and valuable addition to moving this debate forwards.”
Professor Alistair Woodward
CONTENT
Part I: Introduction
1: The Anthropocene: A Planet Under Pressure
2: Climate Change and Global Health
Part II: Primary Effects
3: Heat-related and Cold-related Mortality and Morbidity
4: Occupational Heat Effects: A Global Health and Economic Threat Due to Climate Change
5: Measuring and Estimating Occupational Heat Exposure and Effects in Relation to Climate Change: ‘Hothaps’ Tools for Impact Assessments and Prevention Approaches
6: Climate Extremes, Disasters and Health
Part III: Secondary Effects
7: Global Warming and Malaria in Tropical Highlands – An Estimation of Ethiopia’s ‘Unmitigated’ Annual Malaria Burden in the 21st Century
8: Dengue: Distribution and Transmission Dynamics with Climate Change
9: Lyme Disease and Climate Change
10: Climate Change and Human Parasitic Disease
11: Impacts of Climate Change on Allergens and Allergic Diseases: Knowledge and Highlights from Two Decades of Research
12: Wildfires, Air Pollution, Climate Change and Health
Part IV: Tertiary Effects
13: Famine, Hunger, Society and Climate Change link to free chapter
14: Moving to a Better Life? Climate, Migration and Population Health
15: Unholy Trinity: Climate Change, Conflict and Ill Health
Part V: Regional Issues
16: Climate Change and Health in East Asia: A Food in Health Security Perspective
17: Climate Change and Health in South Asian Countries
18: Climate Change and Global Health: A Latin American Perspective
19: Small Island States – Canaries in the Coal Mine of Climate Change and Health
20: Climate Change Adaptation to Infectious Diseases in Europe
21: Climate Change and Health in the Arctic
22: Climate Change and Health in Africa
23: Zoonotic Diseases and Their Drivers in Africa
Part VI: Cross-Cutting Issues
24: Climate Change, Food and Energy: Politics and Co-benefits
25: Death of a Mwana: Biomass Fuels, Poverty, Gender and Climate Change
26: Mental Health, Cognition and the Challenge of Climate Change
27: Climate Change, Housing and Public Health
28: Health in New Socio-economic Pathways for Climate Change Research
Part VII: Transformation
29: Health Activism and the Challenge of Climate Change
30: Climate Change and Health: From Adaptation Towards a Solution
31. From Paris towards 1.5 degrees C (paperback issue only)
“One section outlines regional problems, another chapter describes research methods for assessing and preventing health consequences, and other chapters concern successful health activism. In short, there is something for everyone interested in climate change and health, including those wanting a comprehensive reference text, public health researchers, and advocates and activists. The authors make it clear that action is urgent on purely health grounds, let alone all the other reasons. The concluding chapter, “Climate change and health: from adaptation towards a solution”, reminds us that there are essential conversations for us to join and actions to be taken. Semmelweis and Snow are watching.”
Senior, Tim. "Attention: this is a storm warning." The Medical journal of Australia 201.11 (2014): 692-692.
Dr. Tim Senior
REVIEWS
1. Senior, Tim. "Attention: this is a storm warning." The Medical journal of Australia 201.11 (2014): 692-692. (click here)
2. Woodward, Alistair. "Climate change—what health professionals might do about it." The Lancet 386.10007 (2015): e43-e44. (click here)
3. Sainsbury, Peter. "Climate Change and Global Health." (2016): 198-198. (click here)
4. Wahlqvist, Marl. "Climate Change and Global Health Book Review (2014) (click here)