| Human Health Effects of Climate Change: The Evidence & The Knowledge Gaps Francesca Dominici NCAR October 26 2007 |
| Potential Climate Change Impacts |
| Slide 3 |
| Insect-, Tick-, and Rodent-Borne Diseases |
| Water-Borne Diseases |
| Climate change impact on biogenic emissions |
| Temperature and Health |
| "Temperature-Related Deaths" |
| Slide 9 |
| Not Just Warming More Extreme Events Flooding heatwaves Etc. |
| Slide 11 |
| Heat Wave in Europe |
| Public health interventions |
| Temperature, Air Pollution, and Health |
| Air Pollution Effects |
| Slide 16 |
| Slide 17 |
| Ozone Chemical Reaction Rates Increases with Temperature |
| Climate Change, Ozone, and Health |
| Slide 20 |
| Slide 21 |
| Epidemiological studies using national datasets |
| Slide 23 |
| National Morbidity, Mortality, and Air Pollution Study (NMMAPS), 1987—2000 |
| The National Medicare Cohort Study, 1999-2005 (MCAPS) |
| Medicare data |
| Integrating National
Databases for Monitoring Population Health |
| Slide 28 |
| Daily time series of hospitalization rates and PM2.5 levels in Los Angeles county (1999-2005) |
Estimating temperature-health exposure-response functions |
| Estimating health effects (mortality and morbidity) associated with heat waves |
| A surveillance model to track adverse health effects associated with extreme temperatures |