IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007
Climate Change 2007: Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

Coordinating Lead Authors:

Ulisses Confalonieri (Brazil), Bettina Menne (WHO Regional Office for Europe/Germany)

Lead Authors:

Rais Akhtar (India), Kristie L. Ebi (USA), Maria Hauengue (Mozambique), R. Sari Kovats (UK), Boris Revich (Russia), Alistair Woodward (New Zealand)

Contributing Authors:

Tarakegn Abeku (Ethiopia), Mozaharul Alam (Bangladesh), Paul Beggs (Australia), Bernard Clot (Switzerland), Chris Furgal (Canada), Simon Hales (New Zealand), Guy Hutton (UK), Sirajul Islam (Bangladesh), Tord Kjellstrom (New Zealand/Sweden), Nancy Lewis (USA), Anil Markandya (UK), Glenn McGregor (New Zealand), Kirk R. Smith (USA), Christina Tirado (Spain), Madeleine Thomson (UK), Tanja Wolf (WHO Regional Office for Europe/Germany)

Review Editors:

Susanna Curto (Argentina), Anthony McMichael (Australia)

This chapter should be cited as:

Confalonieri, U., B. Menne, R. Akhtar, K.L. Ebi, M. Hauengue, R.S. Kovats, B. Revich and A. Woodward, 2007: Human health. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, M.L. Parry, O.F. Canziani, J.P. Palutikof, P.J. van der Linden and C.E. Hanson, Eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 391-431.