In May 2007, the Department of Health published Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK, which updates a previous document published in 2001/2. It looks at a range of impacts and their possible implications for health including:
- heatwaves and higher average temperatures
floods, storms etc - vector borne diseases (eg. malaria - apparently very unlikely)
- food borne disease
- water borne disease
- air pollution
- ground level UV
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