Climate change and health: preparing for unprecedented challenges
... climate change ... the defining issue for public health during this century ...
... This century, climate change – a fifth horseman, a new threat of a magnitude unknown to human experience – will ride across our promising landscape of public health. It will ride on a collision course with all the fits and starts of our progress, sometimes fragile, sometimes fundamental. ...
Margaret Chan, PVO GD, 2007
<http://www.who.int/dg/speeches/2007/20071211_maryland/en/index.html>
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