Thursday, April 15 / 3:30 PM - 5:20 PM   •   Cumberland B

Session 65:
Global Climate Change and Health/Mortality Consequences

Chair: Alison M. Buttenheim, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Deborah L. Balk, City University of New York (CUNY) Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR)

  1. Climate Change and Rural Child Health: A Review of the Evidence • Angela Baschieri, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) ; Sari Kovats, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)

  2. Climate Change, Humidity, and Mortality in the United States • Alan Barreca, Tulane University

  3. Global Climate Change Impacts on Human Health in Sub-Saharan Africa • Sina Ayanlade, King's College London ; N.O Adeoye, Obafemi Awolowo University ; O. Babatimehin, Obafemi Awolowo University

  4. Heat Waves and Cold Spells and Their Effect on Mortality: An Analysis of Micro-Data for the Netherlands In the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century • Peter Ekamper, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) ; Frans W.A. van Poppel, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) ; Coen van Duin, Statistics Netherlands ; Kees Mandemakers, Erasmus University Rotterdam

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