title: Climate change and human health: what are the research trends? A scoping review protocol.
abstract: For 28 years, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been assessing the potential risks associated with anthropogenic climate change. Although interest in climate change and health is growing, the implications arising from their interaction remain understudied. Generating a greater understanding of the health impacts of climate change could be key step in inciting some of the changes necessary to decelerate global warming. A long-term and broad overview of the existing scientific literature in the field of climate change and health is currently missing in order to ensure that all priority areas are being adequately addressed. In this paper we outline our methods to conduct a scoping review of the published peer-reviewed literature on climate change and health between 1990 and 2015.
  
  
  
  A detailed search strategy will be used to search the PubMed and Web of Science databases. Specific inclusion and exclusion criteria will be applied in order to capture the most relevant literature in the time frame chosen. Data will be extracted, categorised and coded to allow for statistical analysis of the results.
  
  
  
  No ethical approval was required for this study. A searchable database of climate change and health publications will be developed and a manuscript will be complied for publication and dissemination of the findings. We anticipate that this study will allow us to map the trends observed in publications over the 25-year time period in climate change and health research. It will also identify the research areas with the highest volume of publications as well as highlight the research trends in climate change and health.
authors.affiliation: Centre Virchow-Villermé for Public Health Paris-Berlin, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Niamh
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Herlihy
authors.affiliation: Centre Virchow-Villermé for Public Health Paris-Berlin, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France.|Laboratoire MAP5, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Avner
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bar-Hen
authors.affiliation: Centre Virchow-Villermé for Public Health Paris-Berlin, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France.|French School of Public Health, Paris-Rennes, France.
authors.forename: Glenn
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Verner
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fischer
authors.affiliation: Institute of Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Rainer
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sauerborn
authors.affiliation: Centre Virchow-Villermé for Public Health Paris-Berlin, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France.|Groupe de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur les Processus d'information et de Communication (EA 1498), Université Paris Sorbonne-Celsa, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Anneliese
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Depoux
authors.affiliation: Centre Virchow-Villermé for Public Health Paris-Berlin, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France.|Institute of Global Health, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Antoine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Flahault
authors.affiliation: Centre Virchow-Villermé for Public Health Paris-Berlin, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Stefanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schütte
mesh_terms: D057231:Climate Change; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D012106:Research / Q000639:trends*; D012107:Research Design; D012306:Risk; D000098584:Scoping Reviews as Topic
keywords: Climate Change; Global Health; Research Methods