Health benefits of policies to mitigate climate change.

摘要

The Comment on health co-benefits of policies to tackle climate change (Nov 27, p 1802) is timely in reinforcing points made in earlier publications in The Lancet. It is also an encouraging example of how academies, through their networks, are becoming active in communicating evidence to inform international policy making. Academies of science in their network the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC) have also recently focused on issues associated with climate change, in this case collating evidence for some of the direct effects on health.2 EASAC documented changes in the European incidence and distribution of human and animal infectious diseases, particularly vector-borne, which might already be attributable to climate change, and identified priorities for future surveillance, research, and disease control.