Climate Change and Human Health: Risks and Responses

doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7451.1324

BMJ 2004;328:1324 (29 May), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7451.1324

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Climate Change and Human Health: Risks and Responses

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The UK government's chief scientist, David King, has said that"climate change is the most severe problem we are facing today—moreserious even than the threat of terrorism." Yet terrorism continuesto dominate the world's news media and preoccupy the thoughtsof many people. James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank,recently told an audience of representatives of business andcivil society groups that the environment was on the back burnerof international discussions on development.

Eds A J McMichael, D H Campbell-Lendrum,C F Corvalän, K L Ebi, A K Githeko, J D Scheraga, A Woodward

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It is perhaps time to be reminded of Hippocrates, suggests TonyMcMichael, one of the editors of Climate Change and Human Health.Hippocrates related epidemics to seasonal changes in weather,writing that physicians should . . . [Full text of this article]

Cathy Read, consultant in public health

Barnsley Primary Care Trust