Climate Change & Rural Child Health
Bell, Erica / Seidel, Bastian M. / Merrick, Joav, MD, MMedSci, DMSc
Over the past 60 years, the world has seen gradual and hard-won progress in reducing child mortality and improving the lives of opportunities of children. Some of this is attributable to medical science, much of it to simple but effective public health measures. Even though 24, 000 children continue to die each day from preventable causes, this represents a dramatic improvement, and progress continues to be made. Climate change threatens to un...