Dr Paul Beggs - Publications
Journal Articles
Articles in Scholarly Refereed Journals (C1)
21. Beggs PJ, Walczyk NE. Impacts of climate change on plant food allergens: a previously unrecognised threat to human health. Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health 2008; in press.
20. Vaneckova P, Beggs PJ, de Dear RJ, McCracken KW. Effect of temperature on mortality during the six warmer months in Sydney, Australia, between 1993 and 2004. Environmental Research 2008; in press.
19. Beggs PJ, Vaneckova P. Admission to hospital for effects of heat and light: New South Wales, 1993-94 to 2003-04. NSW Public Health Bulletin 2008; ():-. In press.
18. Vaneckova P, Hart MA, Beggs PJ, de Dear RJ. Synoptic analysis of heat-related mortality in Sydney, Australia, 1993-2001. International Journal of Biometeorology 2008; 52(6):439-451 DOI: 10.1007/s00484-007-0138-z.
17. Hart MA, de Dear R, Beggs PJ. A synoptic climatology of pollen concentrations during the six warmest months in Sydney, Australia. International Journal of Biometeorology 2007; 51(3):209-220.
16. Beggs PJ, Bambrick HJ. Será o crescimento mundial de incidência da asma um impacto antecipado de mudanças climáticas antropogênicas? [Is the global rise of asthma an early impact of anthropogenic climate change?] Ciência & Saúde Coletiva 2006; 11(3):745-752.
15. Beggs PJ, Bambrick HJ. Is the global rise of asthma an early impact of anthropogenic climate change? Environmental Health Perspectives 2005; 113(8):915-919.
[Republished in Portugese - see above]
14. Lyth A, Holbrook NJ, Beggs PJ. Climate, urbanisation and vulnerability to vector-borne disease in subtropical coastal Australia: Sustainable policy for a changing environment. Environmental Hazards 2005; 6(4):189-200.
13. Beggs P. Admission to hospital for sunburn and drug phototoxic and photoallergic responses: New South Wales, 1993-94 to 2000-01. NSW Public Health Bulletin 2005; 16(9-10):147-150.
12. Beggs PJ. Impacts of climate change on
aeroallergens: past and future. Clinical
and Experimental Allergy 2004; 34(10) :1507-1513.
11. Stennett PJ, Beggs PJ. Alternaria spores in the atmosphere of Sydney, Australia, and relationships with meteorological factors. International Journal of Biometeorology 2004; 49(2):98-105.
10. Stennett PJ, Beggs PJ. Pollen in the atmosphere of Sydney, Australia, and relationships with meteorological parameters. Grana 2004; 43(4):209-216.
9. Beggs PJ, Selkirk PM, Kingdom DL. Identification of von Karman vortices in the surface winds of Heard Island. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 2004; 113(2):287-297.
8. Done SJ, Holbrook NJ, Beggs PJ. The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation and Ross River virus incidence in Queensland, Australia. International Journal of Biometeorology 2002; 46(4):202-207.
7. Beggs PJ. Potential impacts of global warming on medications and human health. World Resource Review 2002; 14(3):369-384.
6. Beggs PJ. Vaccine storage and handling: Maintaining the cold chain under global warming. Environmental Health 2001; 1(4):67-75.
5. Beggs PJ, Siciliano F. Spatial relationship between dwelling crowding and selected causes of morbidity in Sydney, Australia, in 1994-97. Australian Geographer 2001; 32(3):377-401.
4. Beggs PJ. Impacts of climate and climate change on medications and human health. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 2000; 24(6):630-632.
3. Lymburner L, Beggs PJ, Jacobson CR. Estimation of canopy-average surface specific leaf area using Landsat TM data. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 2000; 66(2):183-192.
2. Beggs PJ. Pollen and pollen antigen as triggers of asthma - what to measure? Atmospheric Environment 1998; 32(10):1777-1783.
1. Beggs PJ, Curson PH. An integrated
environmental asthma model. Archives of
Environmental Health 1995; 50(2):87-94.
Non-Refereed Articles (C3)
Beggs P. Australia pays the health price of global climate change. Australian Medicine 5 August 1996; 8(14):12-13.
Letters or Notes (C4)
Vaneckova P, Beggs P, de Dear R, McCracken K. The effect of temperature on morbidity and mortality in Sydney, Australia, between 1993-2005. Epidemiology 2007; 18(5):S198. ISEE-801 Conf Abstract
Beggs PJ. A link between dwelling crowding, Helicobacter pylori infection and sudden infant death syndrome. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2001; 84(6):525.
Beggs PJ. Pollutant exposures: back to basics. New South Wales Public Health Bulletin March 1998; 9(3):38.
Beggs P. Health, geography and mapping. New South Wales Public Health Bulletin August 1996; 7(8):89,93.
Books
Authored Other (A2)
McMichael T, Capon T, Good M, Giles-Corti B, Bambrick H, Beggs P, Falconer I, Tong S, Nicholls N, Currie B, Burgess P, Kelly B, Williams S. Healthy Planet, Places and People. Research Australia, 2007. http://www.thankyouday.org/content/documents/web_EnviroReportRA.pdf
Aplin G, Beggs P, Brierley G, Cleugh H, Curson P, Mitchell P, Pitman A, Rich D. Global Environmental Crises: An Australian Perspective (Second Edition). Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1999, pp. 392..
Book Chapters (B)
Confalonieri U, Menne B, Akhtar R et al. (2007) Human health. In: Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (eds Parry ML, Canziani OF, Palutikof JP, van der Linden PJ, Hanson CE), pp 391-431. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Beggs P, Curson P. Chapter 14. Climate and Chronic Respiratory Disease. pp. 329-354 In: Cheremisinoff PN, Cheremisinoff NP (Eds) Health and Toxicology. Advances in Environmental Control Technology Series. Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, Texas, 1997, p. 508.
Conference Publications
Full Written Paper Refereed (E1)
Lyth A, Beggs PJ, Holbrook NJ. Vector borne disease in urban subtropical coastal zones: planning perspectives for an emerging natural hazard. In: Morrison RJ, Quin S, Bryant EA (Eds). Planning for Natural Hazards - How Can We Mitigate the Impacts? Proceedings of a Symposium. pp.89-101. 2-5 February 2005. GeoQuest Research Centre, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia.
Beggs PJ. Potential impacts of global warming on medications and human health. In: Shen S (Ed). Global warming science & policy: Proceedings of 12th Global Warming International Conference & Expo (GW12), April 8-11, 2001, Cambridge UK (3 volume set). Supcon International, Chicago, 2001.
Beggs PJ. Spatial analysis of dwelling crowding and disease in Sydney, Australia. In: Whigham PA (Ed). SIRC'99 Our Safe Living Environment: The Changing Face of Spatial Systems. Proceedings of The 11th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre, 13-15 December 1999, pp. 109-119. University of Otago, Dunedin, 1999.
Curson PH, Beggs PJ. Climate Change and Chronic Respiratory Disease - The Case of Asthma. pp. 35-45 In: Curson P, Guest C, Jackson E (Eds) Climate Change and Human Health in the Asia-Pacific Region. Proceedings of a conference held 23-24 September, 1996, Canberra, Australia. Australian Medical Association and Greenpeace International, Canberra, 1997, p.110.