title: A public health approach to the impact of climate change on health in southern Africa - identifying priority modifiable risks.
abstract: Anthropogenic climate change and anticipated adverse impacts on human health as outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are taken as given. A conceptual model for thinking about the spectrum of climate-related health risks ranging from distal and infrastructural to proximal and behavioural and their relation to the burden of disease pattern typical of sub-Saharan Africa is provided. The model provides a tool for identifying modifiable risk factors with a view to future research, specifically into the performance of interventions to reduce the impact of climate change.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health Research, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Myers
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Galloway
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Manyike
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tucker
mesh_terms: D000353:Africa, Southern; D002908:Chronic Disease; D057231:Climate Change; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D014943:Global Health; D006358:Hot Temperature; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health; D016272:Occupational Health; D011634:Public Health; D018570:Risk Assessment