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Appendix D: Abstracts of Conference Presentations
Appendix D: Abstracts of Conference Presentations
Pages 57-64
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One requirement is flexible management within the health sector, which is close to the population and that can adapt to the changing patterns of disease. In addition, the wide impact of infectious diseases, such as AIDS, mandates a policy of increased intersectorial cooperation.
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Studies in progress, employing satellite imagery, wit! permit retrospective and prospective analyses of marine plankton and the cholera outbreak in Latin America during 1991-1992.
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The impact of climate change could exacerbate the situation, as more extreme hot weather, and a greater frequency of oppressive air masses could cause the number of heat-related deaths to rise significantly. Although developing nations could suffer inordinately, it is quite obvious that extreme heat can cause havoc in American cities, as evidenced by the recent Chicago heat wave.
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STEPHEN S MORSE, Ph.D ``Emerging infectious diseases'' are those that are newly appeared in the population or are rapidly increasing their incidence or geographic range (e.g., HIV/AIDS, cholera in South America and Africa, Ebola in Africa, and Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome and Lyme disease in the United States)
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While the degree of pollution resulting from climate change is relatively unclear, the effects of particulate air pollution and ozone are becoming increasingly clear. Increased particulate air pollution is associated with increased risk of mortality, decreased life expectancy, and increased hospital admissions for heart and respiratory illness.
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Increasing seasonal runoff at some locations in the United States may be associated with a warning trend during this century, but the record is not consistent. Climate change influences water quality directly and indirectly; directly through changes in water temperature and associated chemical and biochemical phenomena (e.g., dissolved oxygen, algae)
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El Nino events producing warmer and wetter years periodically in regions around the world may be associated with upsurges of cholera and other water-borne diseases, new appearances of harmful algal blooms, disease events across taxa in the marine environment, outbreaks of malaria and dengue fever, and the abundance of rodents as pests and pathogen vectors. Multidisciplinary application centers integrating climate forecasting with ecological and social information can provide early warning for multiple sectors including hydroelectric energy,
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In considering E1 Nino as an analogue for long-term climate change, lessons can be learned from E1 Nino's effects on extreme events: changes in droughts, floods, and minimum and maximum temperatures. Study of the linkage between ENSO and health is beginning to reveal important threshold effects and provide tools for predicting the impacts of global climate change that can be tested and perfected on verifiable timescales.
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