Protecting Health in Europe from Climate Change

***Highly commended in the 2009 BMA Medical Book Competition public health category*** The scientific consensus is that climate change affects health through changing weather patterns (such as more intense and frequent extreme events) and indirectly through changes in water air food quality and quantity ecosystems agriculture livelihoods and infrastructure. The effects will be unevenly distributed and those at greatest risk include people who are poor very young elderly and/or ill. Climate chang