Climate change and rural child health [E-Book]

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Erica Bell, Bastian M. Seidel and Joav Merrick -- Chapter 1 -- Climate change impacts will be pervasive / Michael C. MacCracken -- Chapter 2 -- Climate and child health in rural areas of low and middle income countries / Angela Baschieri and Sari Kovats -- Chapter 3 -- Protecting our health and environment / Cheryl C. Macpherson -- Chapter 4 -- Impact of global climate change on childrens' health and well-being / Jeffrey Goldhagen -- Chapter 5 -- Climate change and child health in Australia / Lyndall Strazdins, Sharon Friel, Anthony McMichael, and others -- Chapter 6 -- Warming up to the embodied context of First Nations child health research / Margot W. Parkes, Sarah de Leeuw, and Margot Greenwood, MA, PhD

Chapter 7 -- Healthy children and a healthy planet : a role for education / Susan M. Cooke ... [and others] -- Chapter 8 -- Climate change and diarrhoeal disease : perspectives for development policies / Kirsten Halsn�s and Tullik H.Y. F�yn -- Chapter 9 -- Flooding and infectious disease in rural children / Colleen Lau and Philip Weinstein -- Chapter 10 -- Climate change effects on trematode and nematode diseases affecting children in rural areas of developing countries / Santiago Mas-Coma, M. Adela Valero, and M. Dolores Bargues -- Chapter 11 -- Impacts of climate change on aeroallergens and allergic respiratory diseases in children in rural areas / Paul John Beggs -- Chapter 12 -- Challenges and solutions in the provision of health to the rural Bedouin population in southern Israel / Jacob Urkin, Said Alsana, and Joav Merrick

Chapter 13 -- Meat, climate change, and global child health / John Powles -- Chapter 14 -- Climate adversity : yet another stressor for rural adolescents / Helen J. Stain ... [and others] -- Chapter 15 -- The effect of climate change on children living on Pacific islands / Emma Britton and Philippa Howden-Chapman -- Chapter 16 -- From typhoid to tsunamis : Samoan children in a changing world / Graeme Lindsay, Teuila Percival, and Alistair Woodward -- Chapter 17 -- Social-ecological resilience and Inuit child health / Karen Morrison and David Waltner-Toews -- Chapter 18 -- The global financial crisis, climate change, and rural child health / Erica Bell -- Chapter 19 -- Australia, 'lucky country' or 'climate change canary' : her children's future / Elizabeth G. Hanna ... [and others] -- Chapter 20 About the Editors -- Chapter 21 About the University Department of Rural Health -- Chapter 22 -- About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel -- Chapter 23 -- About the Book Series Health and Human Development -- Index

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English.

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