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  Global climate change and public health. First edition

  Kent E. Pinkerton, William N. Rom, editors.

  Summary: Pulmonary physicians and scientists currently have minimal capacity to respond to climate change and its impacts on health. The extent to which climate change influences the prevalence and incidence of respiratory morbidity remains largely undefined. However, evidence is increasing that climate change does drive respiratory disease onset and exacerbation as a result of increased ambient and indoor air pollution, desertification, heat stress, wildfires, and the geographic and temporal spread of pollens, molds and infectious agents. Preliminary research has revealed climate change to have potentially direct and indirect adverse impacts on respiratory health. Published studies have linked climate change to increases in respiratory disease, including the following: changing pollen releases impacting asthma and allergic rhinitis, heat waves causing critical care-related diseases, climate driven air pollution increases, exacerbating asthma and COPD, desertification increasing particulate matter (PM) exposures, and climate related changes in food and water security impacting infectious respiratory disease through malnutrition (pneumonia, upper respiratory infections). High level ozone and ozone exposure has been linked to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, lung cancer, and acute lower respiratory infection. Global Climate Change and Public Health is an important new volume based on the research, findings, and discussions of US and international experts on respiratory health and climate change. This volume addresses issues of major importance to respiratory health and fills a major gap in the current literature.
  
  Contents:
  Introduction: Consequences of Global Warming to the Publics Health
  Climate Variability and Change Data and Information for Global Public Health
  Climate Change: Overview of Data Sources, Observed and Predicted Temperature Changes, and Impacts on Public and Environmental Health
  Eyewitness to Global Warming
  California and Climate Changes
  Heat Waves and Rising Temperatures: Human Health Impacts and the Determinants of Vulnerability
  Climate, Air Quality and Allergy: Emerging Methods for Detecting Linkages
  The Human Health Co-benefits of Air Quality Improvements Associated with Climate Change Mitigation
  Asthma, Hayfever, Pollen, and Climate Change
  Dengue Fever and Climate Change
  Impact of Climate Change on Vector-Borne Disease in the Amazon
  Climate Variability and Change: Food, Water and Societal Impacts
  Household Air Pollution from Cookstoves: Impacts on Health and Climate
  Biomass Fuel and Lung Diseases: An Indian Perspective
  The Effects of Climate Change and Air Pollution on Children and Mothers Health
  Climate Change and Public Health in Small Island States and Caribbean Countries
  Global Climate Change, Desertification, and Its Consequences in Turkey and the Middle East
  Assessing the Health Risks of Climate Change
  Federal Programs in Climate Change and Health Research
  Management of Climate Change Adaptation at the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Public Health and Climate Programs at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  Californias Cap-and-Trade Program.

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  Zmienność morfologiczna T. vaginalis in vivo i in vitro. [Morphological variability of T. vaginalis in vivo and in vitro].

  Kazanowska W, Kazimierz, Jodczyk J, Kuczyńska K, Karpowicz MJ.

  Wiad Parazytol. 1977;23(5):477-80.

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