Only an integrated approach across academia, enterprise, governments, and global agencies can tackle the public health impact of climate change

Figures & data

Fig. 1 Number of citations in PubMed by year for the search terms (‘climate change’ and ‘health’ and ‘Africa’) over a 20-year period.

Table 1 Publications indexed in PubMed under the topics ‘climate change’ and ‘health’ by world regions and publication type

	Europe	Africa	Asia	Americas	Oceania
All publications	441	141	235	575	151
% of all publications	29%	9%	15%	37%	10%
Reviews	73	33	44	84	48
Reviews as % of all publications	17%	23%	19%	15%	32%
Population (millions)^a	739	1,072	4,157	942	37
% of all population	11%	15%	60%	14%	<0.1%
Publications per 10 million population	5.9	1.3	0.6	6.1	40.8

^aSource: Population Reference Bureau: 2010 World Population Data Sheet.