Today is Blog Action Day and the theme is climate change.  Below are some ways to learn more about how climate change affects health.

The National Library of Medicine’s(NLM) premiere consumer health website MedlinePlus includes a health topic on climate change http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/climatechange.html This website includes a link to a “preformulated” PubMed search on professional articles. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/climatechange.html#cat59

The NLM website ToxTown includes a section on climate change as well http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/text_version/locations.php?id=125 This section includes an explanation of climate change along with links to other websites; there are lots of good resources here to allow you to fully explore the topic.

University of North Carolina’s next Public Health Grand Round Webcast “Global Climate Change: Implications for Public Health” on Thursday, November 5, 2009 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm ET. The webcast is free. You can register and find more information on the program at http://publichealthgrandrounds.unc.edu/

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