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Climate Chaos
Your Health at Risk, What You Can Do to Protect Yourself and Your Family
 Cindy L. Parker MD, MPH, and Steven M. Shapiro, Phd.

0-275-99858-4/978-0-275-99858-5

Description
A Johns Hopkins University researcher, and a psychologist who is also an award-winning journalist, team up to explain how global warming and its many facets affect human health, and how we can change our behavior to deter the risks.

Reviews:
-"Topics include a global view (greenhouse effects, sea level, speed of change), temperature, air quality, water and drought, cataclysmic events (wind, flooding), vector and infectious diseases ecology, farming and food, ecosystem health (basic ecology), and human behavior (risk perceptions, economics). Each chapter also predicts the consequences of change...The book is well referenced and at least mentions a wide array of environmental challenges...Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners; general readers." —CHOICE
-". . . this book offers a practical guide to health issues that might arise in a warming world and advice on how to deal with them. . . . Climate Chaos offers tips for staying healthy (and alive) in the heat, as well as dealing health hazards such as air pollution, infectious diseases, and other issues that could loom in a warmer climate." —Disaster Management and Prevention
About the Author
CINDY L. PARKER, MD, MPH, is Co-Director of the Program on Global Sustainability and Health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is also a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine. She began her career as a family practice physician and, then recognized that she could help people more by by focusing on preventing health problems before they started. Climate change is, in her view, the most health-damaging problem humanity has ever faced.

STEVEN M. SHAPIRO, PhD, is a Clinical Supervisor and a Counseling Psychologist at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center's Community Psychiatry Program, which provides community-based mental health services to indigent children and families in the Baltimore area. A former health and social issues journalist, who worked in that role for the American Medical Association and publications including Science Digest magazine, Shapiro has focused his writings on how to motivate people to choose healther behaviors. His many awards in journalism include the American College of Emergency Physicians Award of Excellence, the American Heart Association Howard W. Blakeslee Journalism Award, and a National Headliner Award for Outstanding News Reporting.
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