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Weather
Weather, climate, and public health
1 Unit of Epidemiology and Statistics, Valencian School of Studies for Health (EVES), Valencia, Spain
2 Department of Epidemiology, Local Health Authority, RM/E, Rome, Italy
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Correspondence to:
Dr F Ballester
Unit of Epidemiology and Statistics, Escola Valenciana d’Estudis per a la Salut-EVES, C/Joan de Garay 21, Valencia 46017, Spain; ballester_fer@gva.es
Seasonal changes and the impact on public health
Keywords: climate; public health; weather
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"Whoever would study medicine aright must learn of the following subjects. First he must consider the effect of each of the seasons of the year and the differences between them. Secondly he must study the warm and the cold winds, both those which are common to every country and those peculiar to a particular locality...."
Hippocrates, "Airs, Waters, Places", 400 bc1
"As important as the overall tendency toward global warming may be to human health, the effects of the extreme and anomalous weather that accompany it be even more profound"
Paul R Epstein, 20022
Many texts concerning epidemiology and public health, especially those on health matters related to environmental factors, start by quoting words written by Hippocrates more than 2000 years ago. As we see in the quotation above, this wise Greek doctor considered seasonal changes as fundamental factors in the explanation of health phenomena occurrence. Twenty
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