Climate change and health: Moving from theory to practice

Jonathan A Patz; Madeleine C Thomson

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002628

Climate change and health: Moving from theory to practice

PLoS Med. 2018 Jul 31;15(7):e1002628. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002628. eCollection 2018 Jul.

Authors

Jonathan A Patz^{1

2

3}, Madeleine C Thomson^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Global Health Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America.
² Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America.
³ Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America.
⁴ International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Columbia University, Palisades, New York, United States of America.
⁵ Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America.

Abstract

In an Editorial discussing the Special Issue on Climate Change and Health, guest editors Jonathan Patz and Madeleine Thompson summarize key issues in the field and describe the significance of research studies included in the issue.

Publication types

Editorial
Introductory Journal Article

MeSH terms

Climate Change*
Environmental Monitoring
Global Health*
Health Status Indicators
Health Status*
Humans
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors

Grants and funding

The authors received no specific funding for this work.