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1 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
1 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
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Interest in resolving some of the challenges facing health effects modelers and health scientists led the National Research Council's Standing Committee on Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions (ESEH) to hold a workshop on November 3–4, 2014, in Washington, DC, to explore new approaches to modeling the human health risks of climate change.
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Balbus noted that the ESEH committee has been discussing the potential for a workshop on health effects of climate change for many years, and he applauded the committee for its vision in including the health effects of climate change as an important emerging topic in the scope of environmental health. "The timing is perfect for this workshop," Balbus emphasized.
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All the speakers participated in a panel discussion on systems thinking and modeling of the health effects of climate change. They were joined by Molly Brown, of NASA)
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Chapter 2 describes what we know about health effects of climate change, why models of health effects are needed, and the major hurdles that need to be overcome to develop robust models. Chapter 3 examines recent efforts to model health effects of climate change, including effects caused by changes in air quality, water quality, and arthropod disease vectors.
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