Nursing

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Quantum mechanics

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Ecology

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Public health

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Global health

Computer security

Archaeology

Economics

Computer science

Famine

Development economics

Environmental health

Business

Environmental planning

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Physics

Global warming

Climate change

Geography

Political science

Medicine

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Action (physics)

Call to action

Climate justice

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There is increasing understanding, globally, that climate change and increased pollution will have a profound and mostly harmful effect on human health. This review brings together international experts to describe both the direct (such as heat waves) and indirect (such as vector‐borne disease incidence) health impacts of climate change. These impacts vary depending on vulnerability (i.e., existing diseases) and the international, economic, political, and environmental context. This unique review also expands on these issues to address a third category of potential longer‐term impacts on global health: famine, population dislocation, and environmental justice and education. This scholarly resource explores these issues fully, linking them to global health in urban and rural settings in developed and developing countries. The review finishes with a practical discussion of action that health professionals around the world in our field can yet take.

Climate change and global health: A call to more research and more action