Comparative Risk Assessment of the Burden of Disease from Climate Change
Open Access
- 1 December 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Environmental Health Perspectives in Environmental Health Perspectives
- Vol. 114 (12), 1935-1941
- https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.8432
Abstract
The World Health Organization has developed standardized comparative risk assessment methods for estimating aggregate disease burdens attributable to different risk factors. These have been applied to existing and new models for a range of climate-sensitive ...Keywords
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