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The European Journal of Public Health 2006 16(6):578; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl254
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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Global environmental change

Johan P. Mackenbach

Editor-in-chief

In this issue's viewpoint section McMichael argues that global environmental change and its potential effects on population health should be a priority for public health research—and epidemiologist Olsen seems to agree. One of the more tangible consequences of one such big change, global warming, is the increased frequency of heat-waves. Vandentorren reports on the August 2003 heat-wave in France, and finds risk factors for death among elderly people living at home, which provide useful entry-points for public health interventions. Heat-wave response plans, including but not limited to heat health warning systems, are discussed in two papers by Kovats and Diaz, and illustrate what public health can do to mitigate the health effects of global environmental change—in addition to advocating measures which will stop or even reverse the destruction of our habitat in the more distant future.


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