morbidity

Patnaik said the health risks of air pollution and climate change span a wide range of outcomes including infectious disease, weather-related morbidity and a variety of lung, kidney and cardiovascular maladies.

While in office, she introduced the Momnibus Act, which addressed maternal mortality, morbidity, and disparities in the United States.

From other registers, the researchers retrieved information on morbidity, mortality and demography.

“Unfortunately, it is only safe to say that we do not have good morbidity estimates at this point,” said Feiko ter Kuile, chair in tropical epidemiology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

But, he added, if there was a “full incursion”, the plan would “not prevent what we expect substantial additional mortality and morbidity”.