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Examining Climate Change-Health Nexus In Ghana, Lucia Kafui Hussey
Examining Climate Change-Health Nexus In Ghana, Lucia Kafui Hussey
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Climate change is one of today’s most pressing global issues with its physical, biological and social impacts widely recognized. One area of concern is its potential health consequences. The postulated health effects from climate change are far-reaching that climate change induced health risks are signaled as the most pressing problems to public health in the 21st century. Although developing countries such as Ghana had been suggested as a vulnerable hotspot for the health consequences of climate change, there is a paucity of empirical research on climate change and its health linkages in the country.
The purpose of this dissertation …