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- description: ~
  display_name: "Chapter 4: Impacts of Extreme Events on Human Health (in 'The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment')"
  doi: 10.7930/J0BZ63ZV
  identifier: extreme-events
  number: 4
  report_identifier: usgcrp-climate-human-health-assessment-2016
  sort_key: 40
  title: Impacts of Extreme Events on Human Health
  type: chapter
  uri: /report/usgcrp-climate-human-health-assessment-2016/chapter/extreme-events
  url: https://health2016.globalchange.gov/air-quality-impacts