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Perspectives and Future Research Directions on Climate Change and Health in China

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Currently climate change is becoming a significant threat to human health. Though increasing evidence about climate change or variation has shown an adverse impact on human health in China, more deep researches are needed for climate change adaption in the future. Some research recommendations were identified in this chapter: (1) to identify health risk scope of climate change, (2) to investigate spatial heterogeneity of health risk from climate change, (3) to strengthen studies on health risk of climate-related disasters, (4) to explore mechanism of health risk caused by climate change, (5) to improve early warning capacity to climate change, (6) to enhance co-benefit assessment of climate change mitigation, and (7) to strengthen adaptation research of climate change.

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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program (2018YFA0606202).

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  1. Guangdong Provincial Institute of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, China

    Wenjun Ma, Jianpeng Xiao, Xing Li, Tao Liu, Weilin Zeng & Ruoxi Zhong

  2. General Practice Center, Nanhai Hospital, Southern Medical University, Foshan, China

    Wenjun Ma & Tao Liu

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Ma, W., Xiao, J., Li, X., Liu, T., Zeng, W., Zhong, R. (2019). Perspectives and Future Research Directions on Climate Change and Health in China. In: Lin, H., Ma, W., Liu, Q. (eds) Ambient Temperature and Health in China. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2583-0_12

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