Ambient Temperature and Health in China

Hualiang Lin: Hualiang Lin is an associate professor at Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen UniversityWenjun Ma is a professor at Guangdong Provincial Institute of Public HealthQiyong Liu is a professor and chief scientist at National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

• Overview of climate change in China.- Ambient temperature and mortality in Chinese population.- Ambient temperature and morbidity in China.- Heat wave and mortality/morbidity in China.- Ambient temperature and major infectious diseases in China.- style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Ambient temperature and reproductive healthoutcomes.- Health vulnerability assessment to climate change in China.- Adapting to climate change in China.- Health co-benefits in relation to greenhouse gas emission reductions in China.- Ambient temperature and diseases burden in China.- Comparison of health impacts between China and other countries.- Perspectives and future research directions.

“This book is written for practitioners and planners, especially those planning for future health contingencies in China. Doctors, public health workers, city planners, planners for rural modifications, and other professionals dealing with future needs in healthcare, heat reduction, and providing emergency support in temperature emergencies are the main audience, and they will need this book. … This book will be very useful to health workers planning for a hotter future.” (Eugene N. Anderson, Doody's Book Reviews, 27 September, 2019)