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... Modelers need to address complexity both by defining the task at hand and by acknowledging climate change in the context of other drivers of health outcomes, noted Anthony Janetos, of Boston University's Frederick S Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.
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... She said that the use of modeling to design surveillance programs to make it possible to avoid projected health effects of climate change will constitute an important paradigm change for the health community. Janetos recommended a three-pronged approach.
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... "Public health is a local matter, so the response [to health effects of climate change] needs to be a local response," said Benjamin Beard, of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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... In addition to building models of health risks posed by climate change, the scientific community needs to work at building a long-term preventive mindset among decision-makers, he concluded.


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