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20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health: A Position Paper of the American College of Physicians
Climate change could have a devastating effect on human and environmental health. Potential effects of climate change on human health include higher rates of respiratory and heat-related illness, increased prevalence of vector-borne and waterborne diseases, food and water insecurity, and malnutrition. Persons who are elderly, sick, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Global Climate Change and Human Health
The American Medical Association’s Environmental Health policy related to Global Climate Change and Health outlines the recognition of and commitment to addressing the health impacts of climate change.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Women’s Health
Conclusive evidence has demonstrated that climate change is having a dramatic impact on the lives of people around the world. Representing physicians dedicated to the whole well-being of women – including their safety, security, and access to quality care – the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and health at the 66th World Health Assembly
Delegates highlighted the many ways in which climate change affects health, through increasing risks of weather-related extremes, to impacts on both communicable and non-communicable diseases. They commended WHO’s role in international negotiations, technical partnerships with organizations such as the World Meteorological ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Global Climate Change and Children’s Health
Rising global temperatures are causing major physical, chemical, and ecological changes in the planet. There is wide consensus among scientific organizations and climatologists that these broad effects, known as “climate change,” are the result of contemporary human activity. Climate change poses threats to human health, safety, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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AAP Publications Reaffirmed and Retired
Reaffirmation of AAP’s 2007 policy “Global Climate Change and Children’s Health”
20 Apr 2018 |
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Divestment for Health
The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) presents the need for divestment from fossil fuels for human and environmental health. CAPE encourages Canada’s healthcare organizations to make sure their investments are in line with their climate-health vision.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Iowa Climate Statement 2014: Impacts on the Health of Iowans
Iowans are experiencing the very real impacts of climate change, including heavier rains in spring, increased flooding, and a longer growing season. Human health effects are just as real and are already being felt in Iowa. Most obvious, immediate, and direct are the health‐related effects of extreme events, which are increasing in ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health Professional Organizations Call on Governors to Continue Advancing the Clean Power Plan for the Health of the Nation
A report on the very first analysis of the cross-border impacts on health of coal power plants in the EU has been published today. The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), Climate Action network (CAN) Europe, the WWF European Policy Office and Sandbag, have outlined the enormous benefits a full coal phase-out would bring.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Public Health Opportunities to Address the Health Effects of Climate Change
Climate change poses major threats to human health, human and animal populations, ecological stability, and human social, financial, and political stability and well-being. Observed health impacts of climate change include increased heat-related morbidity and mortality, expanded ranges and frequency of infectious disease outbreaks, ...