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Author:   Emily Ying Yang Chan
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138385139

ISBN 10:   1138385131
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   16 May 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Principles of Health, Public Health and Climate Change 3. Climate Change Impact on Disease and Health 4.Climate Change and Disasters 5. Research Methodology I: Climate and Health Outcome Modelling 6. Research Methodology II: Climate and Human Behavioural Model 7. The Case of Hong Kong 8. Health Impact of Extreme Temperature and Heat Island Effect on Mortality 9. Temperature Impact on General and Communicable Disease-Related Morbidities 10. Temperature and Non-Communicable Disease Hospitalisation 11. Climate Change Behavioural Adaptation I: Help-Seeking and Information-Seeking Behaviours under Extreme Climate Events 12. Climate Change Behavioural Adaptation II: Bottom-Up Approach of Community Risk Perception and Self-Help Behaviours under Extreme Climate Events 13. Climate Change Mitigation, Policies, Research Gaps, and Next Steps 14. Conclusion

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Emily Ying Yang Chan serves as Professor, Head of Division of Global Health and Humanitarian Medicine and the Assistant Dean of Faculty of Medicine at Chinese University of Hong Kong. She concurrently holds academic appointments as the Visiting Professor (Public Health Medicine) of Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK, and is the Co-Chair of WHO Thematic Platform for Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management Research Network. She is author/editor of numerous titles and articles, including Public Health Humanitarian Responses to Natural Disasters (Routledge, 2017).

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