ABSTRACT
Climate Change is progressively becoming an important item in the Public Health agenda (Confalonieri et al. 2007; Epstein and Ferber 2011). Several evidences point to an increasing risk to population health due to phenomena associated with climate variability and change, such as the increasingly frequent extreme hydro-meteorological events (Diaz 2007; Karl et al. 2008; FBDS 2010). Health impacts of climate change, however, go beyond the easily perceived extreme events and can involve several indirect mechanisms, such as those socially and environmentally mediated (Confalonieri et al. 2007).
