Climate and human health: synthesizing environmental complexity and uncertainty |
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| Authors: | James D Tamerius Erika K Wise Christoper K Uejio Amy L McCoy Andrew C Comrie |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona, Harvill Building, Box #2, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA;(2) Arid Lands Resource Sciences, University of Arizona, 1955 East Sixth Street, PO Box 210184, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA |
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| Abstract: | Broad relationships between weather and human health have long been recognized, and there is currently a large body of research
examining the impacts of climate change on human health. Much of the literature in this area examines climate–health relationships
at global or regional levels, incorporating mostly generalized responses of pathogens and vectors to broad changes in climate.
Far less research has been done to understand the direct and indirect climate-mediated processes involved at finer scales.
Thus, some studies simplify the role of climate and may over- or under-estimate the potential response, while others have
begun to highlight the subtle and complex role for climate that is contingent on other relevant processes occurring in natural
and social environments. These fundamental processes need to be understood to determine the effects of past, current and future
climate variation and change on human health. We summarize the principal climate variables and climate-dependent processes
that are believed to impact human health across a representative set of diseases, along with key uncertainties in these relationships. |
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| Keywords: | Climate Disease Ecology Environment Health |
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