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Climate Change is Affecting Our Health. Is There a Cure?

62,602 views | Jonathan Patz • TEDxOshkosh

Public health is being impacted by climate change via many pathways - from alterations in infectious disease transmission to water-source compromise, malnutrition, air pollution, and other factors. This talk includes recent analyses that show how mitigating global warming provides extensive health opportunities, as well as major savings in healthcare costs.

Public health is being impacted by climate change via many pathways - from alterations in infectious disease transmission to water-source compromise, malnutrition, air pollution, and other factors. This talk includes recent analyses that show how mitigating global warming provides extensive health opportunities, as well as major savings in healthcare costs.

This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxOshkosh, an independent event.

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This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxOshkosh, an independent event.

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