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Climate change: the implications for policy on injury control and health promotion

¹ Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
² Policy Studies Institute, London, UK

Correspondence to:
Dr I Roberts
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; ian.roberts@lshtm.ac.uk

Accepted 14 September 2005

Keywords: climate change; traffic accidents

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Climate change is a reality. It is not something that may happen in the future. Parts of the world are already suffering from it and evidence points to an accelerating process of impacts if preventive action is not taken as a matter of urgency. A World Health Organization (WHO) report has estimated that over 150 000 people in developing countries are dying each year from the effects of global warming mostly attributable to the burning of fossil fuels.¹ This aspect of our lifestyles is adding alarmingly to levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a "greenhouse gas" which acts as a radiation blanket causing the average global temperature to rise. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts an increase of between 1.5°C and 6°C by 2100 depending on the extent of future emissions.² With such a wide temperature range, the potential influences, both negative and positive, could be . . . [Full text of this article]

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