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Addressing climate change and local public health: the Austin Climate Protection Program and the CDC Working Group on Climate Change collaboration.
In the December 2007 issue of the Journal, scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) framed the public health impacts of climate change (Luber & Hess, 2007). They noted costly catastrophic weather events (Greenough et al., 2001) and vectorborne-disease outbreaks (Gage, Buckot, Eisen, & Hayes, 2008; Greenough et al., 2001; Gubler et al., 2001; Patz, Vavrus, Uejio, & McLelan, 2008) are expected to become more frequent, widespread, and lengthy. The potential health effects of extreme heat (Luber & McGeehin, 2008), respiratory diseases...
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