Climate change and urban health : the case of Hong Kong as a subtropical city / Emily Ying Yang Chan.
This book provides a theoretical framework and related technical skills for investigating climate change and its public health consequences and responses with a focus on urban settings, and in particular Hong Kong, a subtropical metropolis in Asia. Specifically, the book examines the impact of clima...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2019.
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Series: | Routledge studies in environment and health.
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Table of Contents:
- Health impact of climate change : an overview
- Principles of health, public health and climate change
- Climate change impact on disease and health
- Climate change and disasters
- Research methodology I : climate and health outcome modelling
- Research methodology II : climate and human behavioural model
- The case of Hong Kong
- Health impact of extreme temperature and heat island effect on mortality
- Temperature impact on general and communicable disease-related morbidities
- Temperature and non-communicable disease hospitalisation
- Climate change behavioural adaptation I : help-seeking and information-seeking behaviours under extreme climate events
- Climate change behavioural adaptation II : bottom-up approach of community risk perception and self-help behaviours under extreme climate events
- Climate change mitigation, policies, research gaps and next steps.