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Predicting key malaria transmission factors, biting and entomological inoculation rates, using modelled soil moisture in KenyaJ A Patz
Department of Enviromental Health Sciences, John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205 2179, USA
Trop Med Int Health 3:818-27. 1998..These findings can improve both current malaria risk assessments and those based on El Niño forecasts or global climate change model projections...
Climate change: Regional warming and malaria resurgenceJonathan A Patz
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Nature 420:627-8; discussion 628. 2002
Hotspots in climate change and human healthJonathan A Patz
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
BMJ 325:1094-8. 2002
A human disease indicator for the effects of recent global climate changeJonathan A Patz
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205-2179, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:12506-8. 2002
Immunology, climate change and vector-borne diseasesJ A Patz
Program on Health Effects of Global Environmental Change, Dept of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Trends Immunol 22:171-2. 2001..Warm temperatures might intensify or extend the transmission season for dengue fever. Immunologists should examine this interplay between human immunocompetence and vector-borne disease risks in a warmer world...
Effects of environmental change on emerging parasitic diseasesJ A Patz
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, 615 N Wolfe Street, Baltimore MD 21205 2179, USA
Int J Parasitol 30:1395-405. 2000..The combined effects of environmentally detrimental changes in local land use and alterations in global climate disrupt the natural ecosystem and can increase the risk of transmission of parasitic diseases to the human population...
The potential health impacts of climate variability and change for the United States: executive summary of the report of the health sector of the U.S. National AssessmentJ A Patz
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Environ Health Perspect 108:367-76. 2000..S. population from any adverse health outcomes of projected climate change...
The association between extreme precipitation and waterborne disease outbreaks in the United States, 1948-1994F C Curriero
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Public Health 91:1194-9. 2001..CONCLUSIONS: The statistically significant association found between rainfall and disease in the United States is important for water managers, public health officials, and risk assessors of future climate change...
The effects of changing weather on public healthJ A Patz
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 2179, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 21:271-307. 2000..Better understanding of the linkages between climate variability as a determinant of disease will be important, among other key factors, in constructing predictive models to guide public health prevention...
MSJAMA: Global climate change and health: challenges for future practitionersJonathan A Patz
Bloomberg School of Public Health of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
JAMA 287:2283-4. 2002
Reactive nitrogen and human health: acute and long-term implicationsAmir H Wolfe
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Ambio 31:120-5. 2002..As all populations are susceptible, continued interdisciplinary investigations are needed to determine the extent and nature of the beneficial and harmful effects on human health of nitrogen-related pollutants and their derivatives...
Satellite imagery characterizes local animal reservoir populations of Sin Nombre virus in the southwestern United StatesGregory E Glass
W Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Department of Environmental Health Sciences, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:16817-22. 2002..Areas with persistently high-risk environmental conditions may serve as refugia for the survival of SNV in local mouse populations...
Temperature and mortality in 11 cities of the eastern United StatesFrank C Curriero
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Epidemiol 155:80-7. 2002..The model developed in this analysis is potentially useful for projecting the consequences of climate-change scenarios and offering insights into susceptibility to the adverse effects of weather...
Using remotely sensed data to identify areas at risk for hantavirus pulmonary syndromeG E Glass
The Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 6:238-47. 2000..Repeated analysis using satellite imagery from 1995 showed substantial decrease in medium- to high-risk areas. Only one case of HPS was identified in 1996...
Predictability of Vibrio cholerae in Chesapeake BayValérie R Louis
Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, 701 E Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 69:2773-85. 2003..Under scenarios of global climate change, increased climate variability, accompanied by higher stream flow rates and warmer temperatures, could favor conditions that increase the occurrence of V. cholerae in Chesapeake Bay...
Health effects of climate changeAndy Haines
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England
JAMA 291:99-103. 2004
Global warmingJonathan A Patz
BMJ 328:1269-70. 2004
Unhealthy landscapes: Policy recommendations on land use change and infectious disease emergenceJonathan A Patz
Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment SAGE, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 53726 4087, USA
Environ Health Perspect 112:1092-8. 2004....
Global warming kills trees, and peopleCarlos F Corvalan
Bull World Health Organ 82:481. 2004
Global consequences of land useJonathan A Foley
Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment SAGE, University of Wisconsin, 1710 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Science 309:570-4. 2005..We face the challenge of managing trade-offs between immediate human needs and maintaining the capacity of the biosphere to provide goods and services in the long term...
Impact of regional climate change on human healthJonathan A Patz
Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment SAGE, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, 1710 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53726, USA
Nature 438:310-7. 2005....
Malaria risk and temperature: influences from global climate change and local land use practicesJonathan A Patz
Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE, The Nelson Institute and Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, 1710 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:5635-6. 2006
Hospital admissions for heart disease: the effects of temperature and humidityJoel Schwartz
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 00215, USA
Epidemiology 15:755-61. 2004..S. cities with a wide range of climates. To account for possible delayed effects and harvesting, we examined the impact of weather up to 20 days before each admission...
