Table of Contents

Special Issue: Climate Change and Rural Child Health

Edited by Erica Bell, Bastian Seidel and Joav Merrick

EDITORIAL

Climate Change and Rural Child Health
Erica Bell, Bastian M. Seidel and Joav Merrick

REVIEW ARTICLES

Climate Change Impacts Will be Pervasive
Michael C. MacCracken

Impacts of Climate Change on Aeroallergens and Allergic Respiratory Diseases in Children in Rural Areas
Paul John Beggs

Climate Change and Diarrhoeal Disease: Perspectives for Development Policies
Kirsten Halsnæs and Tullik H. Y. Føyn

Flooding and Infectious Disease in Rural Children: Can Intervention Mitigate Predicted Increases in Disease Burden?
Colleen Lau and Philip Weinstein

Climate Change Effects on Trematode and Nematode Diseases Affecting Children in Rural Areas of Developing Countries
Santiago Mas-Coma, M. Adela Valero and M. Dolores Bargues

Climate and Child Health in Rural Areas of Low and Middle Income Countries: A Review of the Epidemiological Evidence
Angela Baschieri and Sari Kovats

From Typhoid to Tsunamis: Samoan Children in a Changing World
Graeme Lindsay, Teuila Percival and Alistair Woodward

The Effect of Climate Change on Children Living on Pacific Islands
Emma Britton and Philippa Howden-Chapman

Social-Ecological Resilience and Inuit Child Health: What Does the Future Hold?
Karen Morrison and David Waltner-Toews

Warming up to the Embodied Context of First Nations Child Health: A Critical Intervention into and Analysis of Health and Climate Change Research
Margot W. Parkes, Sarah de Leeuw and Margo Greenwood

Challenges and Solutions in the Provision of Health to the Rural Bedouin Population in Southern Israel
Jacob Urkin, Said Alsana and Joav Merrick

Climate Change and Child Health in Australia: Likely Futures, New Inequities?
Lyndall Strazdins, Sharon Friel, Anthony McMichael, Susan Woldenberg Butler and Elizabeth Hanna

Australia, Lucky Country or Climate Change Canary: What Future for Her Rural Children?
Elizabeth G. Hanna, Jo McCubbin, Lyndall Strazdins and Graeme Horton

Climate Adversity: Yet Another Stressor for Rural Adolescents
Helen J Stain, John Dean, Brian Kelly, Susan Blinkhorn and Tracey Carnie

The Global Financial Crisis, Climate Change and Rural Child Health: Where to for Rural Health Policy?
Erica Bell

Public Health, Bioethics and Policy: Protecting our Health and Environment
Cheryl C. Macpherson

A Child Rights and Equity-Based Assessment of the Impact of Global Climate Change on Children’s Health and Well-Being
Jeffrey Goldhagen and Raul Mercer

Meat, Climate Change and Global Child Health
John Powles and James Smith

Healthy Children, Healthy Planet: The Case for Transformative Sustainability Education in Schools and Early Childhood From an Australian Perspective
Susan M. Cooke, Julie M. Davis, Grant A. Blashki and Andrew F. Best