The effectiveness of public health interventions to reduce the health impact of climate change: a systematic review of systematic reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Climate change is likely to be one of the most important threats to public health in the coming years. Yet despite the large number of papers considering the health impact of climate change, few have considered what public health interventions may be of most value in reducing the disease burden. We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of public health interventions to reduce the disease burden of high priority climate sensitive diseases.

Methods and findings

For each disease, we performed a systematic search with no restriction on date or language of publication on Medline, Web of Knowledge, Cochrane CENTRAL and SCOPUS up to December 2010 to identify systematic reviews of public health interventions. We retrieved some 3176 records of which 85 full papers were asses

SUBMITTER: Bouzid M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3636259 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature