Economic implications of climate change impacts on human health through undernourishment

The study economically assessed the health burden by considering nine diseases (diarrheal diseases, pertussis, measles, tetanus, meningitis, malaria, lower respiratory infections, birth asphyxia and birth trauma, and protein-energy malnutrition) which are due to undernourishment as a child caused by climate change.

Author Name(s): 
Hasegawa, Tomoko
 Fujimori, Shinichiro
 Takahashi, Kiyoshi
 Yokohata, Tokuta
 Masui, Toshihiko
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Hasegawa, T., S. Fujimori, K. Takahashi, T. Yokohata and T. Masui. 2016. Economic implications of climate change impacts on human health through undernourishment. Climatic Change 136(2): 189-202.

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Publication year: 
2016
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