Climate Change

Climate change and human health: Risks and responses

This report seeks to describe the context and process of global climate change, its actual or likely impacts on health, and how human societies and their governments should respond with particular focus on the health sector.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2003
WHO
Tags:
Food Supply, Health Effects, Waterborne diseases, Climate Change, IPCC, Global Warming, Climate Impacts, Sea Level Rise, Natural Disasters, Diarrhoea, Famine, Sanitation, Vector Borne Diseases, Infectious Diseases, Food Security, Rainfall
Air Pollution

 Sudden death

A mystery disease kills 35 people in Siliguri

Publication Date: 
30/03/2001
Jayanta Basu
Down to Earth
Tags:
River Pollution, Waste Disposal, Health Care, Vector Borne Diseases, Environmental Health, West Bengal, Siliguri, Diseases
Climate Change

 Fatal attraction

Why pregnant women attract mosquitoes

Publication Date: 
14/10/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Malaria, Maternal Health, Vector Borne Diseases, Research, United Kingdom (UK)
Climate Change

 Sure shot!

How the malaria parasite takes out an insurance policy to deal with the immune system

Publication Date: 
14/11/1999
Down to Earth
Tags:
Malaria, Medical Research, Vector Borne Diseases, Life Science
India

 Letting go a good thing

After almost eradicating filaria from a Kerala taluka , there are no takers for a bio environmental vector management project

Publication Date: 
14/09/1999
Down to Earth
Tags:
Health Effects, Vector Control, Vector Borne Diseases, Filariasis, Public Participation, Governance, Kerala
India

 Bureaucracy has no idea about health care trends

T Jacob John , professor of virology and paediatrics at Christian Medical College, Vellore, speaks to Raj Kishor Khaware on the state of health and e

Publication Date: 
14/05/1999
Mario
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Health Care, Health Policy, Vector Borne Diseases, Encephalitis, Viral Diseases, AIDS, India
India

 Wings of change

Researchers are trying to end malaria at its very root: by genetically modifying mosquitoes that carry the disease

Publication Date: 
29/09/1998
Down to Earth
Tags:
Malaria, Drugs, Vector Borne Diseases, Genetic Engineering, Scientists
India

 The only viable solution

It is very interesting to compare the costs of carrying

Publication Date: 
14/07/1998
Down to Earth
7
19980715
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Tags:
Pesticides, Pest Control, Malaria, Vector Borne Diseases, Public Participation, India
India

 Goa: Back to square one

For mysterious reasons, the state government is highly sceptical of the MRC s work

Publication Date: 
14/07/1998
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Pesticides, Pest Control, Malaria, Vector Borne Diseases, Public Participation, India
India

 Pondichery: The gnats live on

Even the memory of initial success of bioenvironmental approach has been wiped off

Publication Date: 
14/07/1998
Down to Earth
7
19980715
0
Tags:
Pesticides, Pest Control, Malaria, Vector Borne Diseases, Public Participation, India

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