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| Jonathan A PatzSummaryAffiliation: University of Wisconsin Country: USA Publications
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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
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
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 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...
Disease emergence from global climate and land use changeJonathan A Patz
Global Environmental Health, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment SAGE Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1710 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Med Clin North Am 92:1473-91, xii. 2008..Without such efforts, we will inevitably benefit our current generation at the cost of generations to come...
Links between climate, malaria, and wetlands in the Amazon BasinSarah H Olson
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 15:659-62. 2009..We show that areas of the Amazon Basin with few wetlands show a variable relationship between precipitation and malaria, while areas with extensive wetlands show a negative relationship with malaria incidence...
Deforestation and malaria in Mâncio Lima County, BrazilSarah H Olson
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53726, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 16:1108-15. 2010..After adjusting for access to care, health district size, and spatial trends, we show that a 4.2%, or 1 SD, change in deforestation from August 1997 through August 2001 is associated with a 48% increase of malaria incidence...
Climate change and waterborne disease risk in the Great Lakes region of the U.SJonathan A Patz
Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment SAGE, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53726, USA
Am J Prev Med 35:451-8. 2008..Extreme precipitation under global warming projections may overwhelm the combined sewer systems and lead to overflow events that can threaten both human health and recreation in the region...
Air quality and exercise-related health benefits from reduced car travel in the midwestern United StatesMaggie L Grabow
Nelson Institute, Sustainability and the Global Environment, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1710 University Ave, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Environ Health Perspect 120:68-76. 2012..Automobile exhaust contains precursors to ozone and fine particulate matter (PM ≤ 2.5 µm in aerodynamic diameter; PM2.5), posing health risks. Dependency on car commuting also reduces physical fitness opportunities...
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
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....
Global warming kills trees, and peopleCarlos F Corvalan
Bull World Health Organ 82:481. 2004
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
Health effects of climate changeAndy Haines
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England
JAMA 291:99-103. 2004
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
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...
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...
Limited diversity of Anopheles darlingi in the Peruvian Amazon region of IquitosViviana Pinedo-Cancino
Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
Am J Trop Med Hyg 75:238-45. 2006..017. These results show that the nine studied populations are highly homogeneous, suggesting that strategies can be developed to combat this malaria vector as a single epidemiologic unit...
The effect of deforestation on the human-biting rate of Anopheles darlingi, the primary vector of Falciparum malaria in the Peruvian AmazonAmy Yomiko Vittor
School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 74:3-11. 2006..Our results indicate that A. darlingi displays significantly increased human-biting activity in areas that have undergone deforestation and development associated with road development...
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...
Global warmingJonathan A Patz
BMJ 328:1269-70. 2004
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...
