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The World Health Organization releases a report on climate change and human health.

Date: 2003

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This report is the first major publication to look at the global impact of climate change on health. It lists a range of recommendations, which include: developing better health assessment tools to be able to indicate when climate shift is contributing to health factors, creating strategies to support small island nations that will be the first to be impacted, funding new research on increased UV exposure, developing new pandemic tracking methodologies, and more.