Chapter 20 Identifying linkages between rates and distributions of malaria, water-born diseases and influenza with climate variability and climate change in Vietnam

Over the last decades, there has been an increasing interest among scientists on the linkage between population health and climate and environmental factors, as well as health impacts of climate change and climate variability. Numerous studies have been done and substantial results achieved, but mostly in the developed countries, and not much quantitative evidence or assessment of the impacts at national and local levels has been provided for developing countries.