Climate Variability and Human Health Impacts in Venezuela

The highlights are as follows:

• The incidence of malaria in Venezuela is positively correlated with mean relative humidity and monthly minimum temperature.
• The political-institutional instability in the country caused an eight-month delay in project activities.

For more details, see:

Presentation (.ppt) for Venezuela - Jan. 2003

The presentations for the entire CRN for January 2003 may be found under CHIEX Publications. See the Presentations for 2003 at the IAI Meeting in Mendoza, Argentina in January 27-28, 2003.