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20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change: What’s Public Health Got to Do With It?
This is the first in a series of five guides designed to help public health professionals understand how they can and should be involved in mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and the lungs
Hotter temperatures will mean that allergy seasons start earlier and last longer. Some very hot days will produce unpleasant peaks in pollution, especially for anyone with a lung problem. This factsheet aims to help prepare individuals, families and communities for climate change and suggests simple actions to help moderate its worst ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Measuring health gains from sustainable development
Measuring health can tell us how well development is advancing the three pillars of sustainability – social, environmental and economic. Whether it is transport that reduces air pollution; weather-resistant housing; safe drinking-water from sustainable water resources, or clean energy for all, putting health at the heart of ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Why We Need a Cleaner, More Efficient Power Sector
On June 2, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, under President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, proposed a commonsense plan to cut carbon pollution from power plants. The science shows that climate change is already posing risks to our health and our economy. This proposal will maintain an affordable, reliable energy ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Preparing Health Care Facilities for Climate Change
Resource compending for guiding healthcare facility decision making around climate change with links to important resources.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Is Your State Prepared For The Health Impacts Of Climate Change?
This winter, a strange sickness has been spreading through the Caribbean. In St. Martin alone, where the disease was first detected in December, there have been over 500 confirmed cases and another 3,200 people are believed to have contracted the disease elsewhere in the Caribbean. The disease, Chikungunya fever, was once only seen ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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More Needs to be Done to Prioritize Climate Change
Climate change is a critical public health issue — one that hospitals need to do more to address. Every year, U.S. hospitals are emitting 8 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gases, generating more than 5.9 million tons of waste annually, and spending more than $6.5 billion on energy costs. While many hospitals are beginning to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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How Climate Change Affects Children: AAP Policy Explained
When pediatricians take care of children, we aren’t just thinking about their health and safety now—we are thinking about their health and safety in the future, too.When we talk with parents about healthy diet and exercise, we aren’t just thinking about good growth and energy now, we are thinking about making sure that ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change Communication and Environmental Literacy
Today my team at Ten Strands and I were pondering the bubble we live in here in the Bay Area. In general, everyone we talk to and work with seems to understand that climate change is a pressing issue that impacts us now and will impact future generations even more severely. It got me wondering […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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CDC Grand Rounds: Climate Change and Health – From Science to Practice
Changes occurring in the world’s climate pose significant threats to human health and wellbeing and will have even greater impacts in the future. These threats are wide-ranging, including decreased air quality and increases in extreme weather events, wildfire, and illnesses transmitted by water, and disease-carriers, such as ...