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Assessing the Health Risks of Climate Change

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Climate change presents growing risks to human health. The extent and complexity of pathways between weather and other environmental variables and health makes the assessment of these risks challenging. Assumptions underlying traditional risk assessment approaches are ill-suited for estimating the health risks of climate change. Instead, vulnerability, capacity, and adaptation assessments can provide useful and timely knowledge to inform policies and measures to effectively prepare for and manage health risks as they change over spatial and temporal scales. At the international level, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) conducts assessments using expert judgment evaluations of the literature combined with the collective experience and judgment of the authors, to reach key conclusions about the state of knowledge of climate change risks and opportunities.

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Ebi, K.L. (2021). Assessing the Health Risks of Climate Change. In: Pinkerton, K.E., Rom, W.N. (eds) Climate Change and Global Public Health. Respiratory Medicine. Humana, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54746-2_6

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