This paper studies the impact of droughts on health outcomes and health expenditures in rural Vietnam. Given the … incidence of drought to health shocks and health-related expenditures from a multiple-wave panel of rural Vietnamese households …. Overall, the results suggest that individuals affected by drought display a deterioration of health conditions and have …

Do environmental conditions pose greater health risks to individuals living in urban or rural areas? The answer is …

and climate variability. These challenges include how to reduce the incidence of malaria (including the significant … challenge of resistant malaria), dengue, and other vector-borne and water-borne diseases that are likely to experience … and malaria transmitted by vectors like mosquitoes. In the context of growing financial pressure on governments due to …

–induced health risks, namely malnutrition and malaria. As the amplification of existing and emerging health risks in the developing …Global warming is perceived as one of the biggest global health risks of the twenty-first century and a threat to the … agriculture and more vulnerable to droughts and have a lower adaptive capacity. Furthermore, the health-related impacts of climate …

effects on human health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2006), some 2.5 million people die every year from … climate variability can also affect human health both directly and indirectly, via changes in biological and ecological … of research on the effects of climate changes on human health has addressed two fundamental questions (WHO, 2003). First …