World Health Organization : Year 1990, World Health Organization Pep, No. 90 10: Potential Health Effects of Climatic Change

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Title:	World Health Organization : Year 1990, World Health Organization Pep, No. 90 10: Potential Health Effects of Climatic Change
Author:	World Health Organization
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
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Citation APA MLA Chicago Health Organization, B. W. (n.d.). World Health Organization : Year 1990, World Health Organization Pep, No. 90 10. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

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Excerpt
The initial draft of this report was prepared by a Working Group that met in Geneva in June 1989. Following the incorporation of the comments from selected WHO focal points, the revised draft was finalized by a WHO Task Group that met in Geneva in April 1990. The participants in the two groups are listed in Annex 1. WHO would like to thank all the participants for giving so unstintingly of their time and expertise to produce a valuable report. In addition, gratitude is expressed to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Scientific Committee on Problems in the Environment (SCOPE), and the US National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) for their substantial contributions to the text.

Table of Contents
Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter 1 . Mechanisms of climatic change . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Greenhouse effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Causes of climatic change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Calculations of climatic warming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Greenhouse gases of concern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Carbon dioxide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Halons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Methane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 12 Nitrous oxide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Carbon monoxide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Ozone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Chapter 2 . Direct effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Climatic stress and adaptation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Thermal factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Heat disorders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Effects of ultraviolet radiation on human beings . . . . . . . . 20 Increase in skin cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Possible alterations in immune responses . . . . . . . . . . 22 Effects on eye diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Positive effects of ultraviolet radiation . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Adaptation of man to ultraviolet radiation . . . . . . . . . 23 Air pollution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2