ReviewEnvironmental health perspectives2017
Detecting and Attributing Health Burdens to Climate Change.
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91 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A systematic review of the effectiveness and utility of Lyme disease prevention measures in Canada, the United States, and Europe.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Pooled it
- Climate Change-Mediated Temperature Extremes: Effects on the Immune System and Associations with Immune-Related Diseases.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2026Review
- Assessing the Effectiveness of Crowdsourced Data to Detect Established Tick Populations in Quebec, Canada: Retrospective Ecological Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2026Article
- Attributing climate-related health burdens in Southeast Asia: a scoping review.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2026Review
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- Climate change and professional responsibility: a cross-sectional survey among German general practitioners.BMC medical ethics · 2026Article
- Climate change and emerging diseases: challenges for physicians in Canada.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2026Article
- Humidity may amplify the temperature-related health risks in the context of climate change.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Improvements in life expectancy mask rising trends in heat-related excess mortality attributable to climate change.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Genetic landscape of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto in Canada: a study of genetic diversity.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Northward expansion of the thermal limit for the tick Ixodes ricinus over the past 40 years.Parasites & vectors · 2025Article
- A Scoping Review of Mosquito Vector Range Shifts: Widespread Expansions and Evidence Gaps in Climate Attribution.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Role of Field Epidemiology in Environmental and Climate Change-Related Health Incidents in Wales: A Qualitative Analysis Through Expert Interviews.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Climate change and global health outcome indicators: A scoping review.Statistical journal of the IAOS · 2025Article
- The paradoxical impact of drought on West Nile virus risk: insights from long-term ecological data.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Ecological preferences and patient autonomy.Journal of medical ethics · 2025Article
- The attribution of human health outcomes to climate change: a transdisciplinary guidance document.Climatic change · 2025Article
- Mediation of Fine Particulate Matter on the Association Between Daily Temperature and Mortality.Journal of Korean medical science · 2025Article
- [Systemic barriers prevent competence-based teaching in the field of planetary health : An online survey among students and descriptive analysis of the National Competence-based Catalogue of Learning Objectives for Medicine 2.0].Die Anaesthesiologie · 2025Article
- Mothers and mosquitoes: climate change contributes to the spread of vector-borne pathogens posing a substantial threat to pregnant women.Seminars in immunopathology · 2025Review
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Abstract
backgroundDetection and attribution of health impacts caused by climate change uses formal methods to determine
objectiveOur goal was to show a range of approaches for conducting detection and attribution analyses.
resultsCase studies for heatwaves, Lyme disease in Canada, and
conclusionsThe results of detection and attribution studies can inform evidence-based risk management to reduce current, and plan for future, changes in health risks associated with climate change. Gaining a better understanding of the size, timing, and distribution of the climate change burden of disease and injury requires reliable long-term data sets, more knowledge about the factors that confound and modify the effects of climate on health, and refinement of analytic techniques for detection and attribution. At the same time, significant advances are possible in the absence of complete data and statistical certainty: there is a place for well-informed judgments, based on understanding of underlying processes and matching of patterns of health, climate, and other determinants of human well-being. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP1509.
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