Global Atmospheric Change and Public Health

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Overview of Global Atmospheric Change

   • Gordon J. MacDonald

   Pages 1-21

3. Immune System and Ultraviolet Light

   • Raymond A. Daynes

   Pages 23-31

4. Effects of UVB on Infectious Diseases

   • Suzanne Holmes Giannini

   Pages 33-45

5. Infectious Diseases and Atmospheric Change

   • Robert E. Shope

   Pages 47-54

6. Human Nutrition and Atmospheric Change

   • Alexander Leaf

   Pages 55-60

7. Cataracts and Ultraviolet Light

   • Hugh R. Taylor

   Pages 61-66

8. Skin Cancer and Ultraviolet Light: Risk Estimates Due to Ozone Depletion

   • Janice Longstreth

   Pages 67-79

9. Respiratory Effects Associated With Global Climate Change

   • Lester D. Grant

   Pages 81-88

10. Atmospheric Change and Temperature-Related Health Effects

    • Edwin M. Kilbourne

    Pages 89-100

11. Glownet: An Information Clearinghouse Network Concept

    • E. Joseph Bangiolo

    Pages 101-107

12. NEDRES: "Yellow Pages" Directory to Environmental Data

    • Gerald S. Barton

    Pages 109-119

13. A Model Program for Physician Education in Environmental Medicine

    • Donna L. Orti, Max R. Lum

    Pages 121-129

14. The Infoterra Network: A Model of International Information Exchange

    • Linda H. Spencer

    Pages 131-176

15. Information Sources and Needs

    • Geoff Worton

    Pages 177-183

16. Panel Discussion: Information Sources and Needs

    • James C. White, William Wagner, Carole N. Beal

    Pages 185-191

17. Information Trends and Resources

    • Frederick W. Stoss

    Pages 193-215

18. Information Needs and Research Priorities

    • Michael P. Farrell, Paul Kanciruk, Frederick M. O’Hara Jr.

    Pages 217-234

19. Panel Discussion: Research Priorities

    • James C. White, William Wagner, Carole N. Beal

    Pages 235-259

The world is just beginning to face up to the problems which will be brought about by global climate change. Most people equate climate change with rising temperatures, disturbed weather patterns, agricultural crises, and sea level rises; yet potential health effects may be the most significant factors in the whole developing picture. Man's effect on climate accelerates as population increases. Population increases strain infrastructures and strained infrastructures lead to stresses on society. We already are experiencing higher ultraviolet B radiation through our depleted ozone layer and can expect more cancers, more cataracts, and diminishing immunity. Expected changing weather and storm patterns may result in disturbed and diminished agricultural production with malnutrition and famine on a grandiose scale; diseases would migrate and the number of displaced persons would increase greatly. This book consists of papers presented at a meeting on Global Atmospheric Change and Public Health, held in Washington, D.C., in December 1989. It was sponsored by the Air Resources Information Clearinghouse (ARIC), a project of the Center for En­ vironmental Information, Inc. (CEI), a nonprofit organization in Rochester, New York, and co-sponsored by thirty-two U.S., Canadian and international organizations and agencies. The conference was the first to bring together in a public forum the health, scien­ tific, policy and information communities to address the issues. The book examines potential public health and health-related impacts on society, communicable diseases, cancer and cataract, immunity, heat effects, respiratory problems and human nutrition.

• Public Health
• cancer
• climate
• climate change
• diseases
• environment
• health
• health effects
• infectious disease
• nutrition
• ozone
• temperature
• ecotoxicology
• air pollution and air quality

• Cornell University, USA

  James C. White

• Center for Environmental Information, USA

  William Wagner, Carole N. Beal

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