TY - BOOK ID - 149852433 TI - Atlas of Health and Climate AU - Organization, World Health. AU - World Meteorological Organization PY - 2012 SN - 9240690603 PB - Geneva : World Health Organization, DB - UniCat KW - Bioclimatology -- Atlases. KW - Climatic changes -- Health aspects -- Atlases. KW - Human beings -- Effect of climate on -- Atlases. KW - Medical climatology -- Atlases. KW - Preventive Medicine KW - Climatic Processes KW - Health Occupations KW - Public Health KW - Environment and Public Health KW - Disciplines and Occupations KW - Ecological and Environmental Processes KW - Health Care KW - Medicine KW - Ecological and Environmental Phenomena KW - Biological Phenomena KW - Phenomena and Processes KW - Environmental Medicine KW - Climate Change KW - Environmental Health UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:149852433 AB - The Atlas of health and climate is a product of this unique collaboration between the meteorological and public health communities. It provides sound scientific information on the connections between weather and climate and major health challenges. These range from diseases of poverty to emergencies arising from extreme weather events and disease outbreaks. They also include environmental degradation the increasing prevalence of noncommunicable diseases and the universal trend of demographic ageing. The Atlas conveys three key messages. First climate affects the geographical and temporal distr ER -