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" Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Climate change will affect, in profoundly adverse ways,some of the most fundamental determinants of health: food, air, water.

In the face of this challenge, WHO is committed to do everything it can to ensure all is done to protect human health from climate change”

Margaret Chan, WHO – Director-General (07/04/2008)

Climate change puts the basic Climate change puts the basic determinants of health at risk determinants of health at risk

*WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health http://www.who.int/social_determinants

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*Anaïs Colombini – Agence de Médicine Préventive

Upwards of100 million people are pushed into poverty each year through catastrophic household health costs

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Mudslide, Ukraine Photo: Joe Lowry/IFRC

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Successfully controlled in China since 1950s90% reduction in cases by 2000Now re-emerging

Zhou et al. 2008 Am J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 78(2), 2008, pp. 188-194

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