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Tackling adverse health effects of climate change and migration through intersectoral capacity building in Sub-Saharan Africa

Charlotte Scheerens, Ilse Ruyssen, Sunanda Ray, An De Sutter, Wouter Vanhove, Els Bekaert, Bob Mash, Peter Decat and Jan De Maeseneer
BJGP Open 2020; 4 (2): bjgpopen20X101065. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen20X101065
Charlotte Scheerens
1 Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
2 Department of Geriatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, US
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Ilse Ruyssen
3 Department of Economics, Ghent University, Belgium, UNU-CRIS Belgium
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Sunanda Ray
4 Department of Community Medicine (retired), University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences, Harare, Zimbabwe
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An De Sutter
1 Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Wouter Vanhove
5 Laboratory of Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture and Ethnobotany, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Els Bekaert
3 Department of Economics, Ghent University, Belgium, UNU-CRIS Belgium
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Bob Mash
6 Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Peter Decat
1 Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Jan De Maeseneer
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Tackling adverse health effects of climate change and migration through intersectoral capacity building in Sub-Saharan Africa
Charlotte Scheerens, Ilse Ruyssen, Sunanda Ray, An De Sutter, Wouter Vanhove, Els Bekaert, Bob Mash, Peter Decat, Jan De Maeseneer
BJGP Open 2020; 4 (2): bjgpopen20X101065. DOI: 10.3399/bjgpopen20X101065

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Charlotte Scheerens, Ilse Ruyssen, Sunanda Ray, An De Sutter, Wouter Vanhove, Els Bekaert, Bob Mash, Peter Decat, Jan De Maeseneer
BJGP Open 2020; 4 (2): bjgpopen20X101065. DOI: 10.3399/bjgpopen20X101065
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