2010 Reports

Summer Institute on Climate Information for Public Health 2010

Mantilla Caicedo, Gilma Constanza; Stanton, Michelle C.; Cibrelus, Laurence

Now that the world’s attention is focused on climate variability and climate change adaptation, it is essential, not
only for public health communities, but also for planners in central government, to understand the role climate plays
in driving disease burden and impacting economic growth. Public health emerges as the final common pathway for
all impacts of climate variability and climate change on individuals as well as societies.