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20 Apr 2018 |
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Getting Involved in Climate Change Action Planning
Public health employees have an important role to play in shaping policies and plans designed to address climate change. As experts on the health of our communities and on the needs of vulnerable communities, public health staff can ensure that these needs are addressed while we prepare to adapt to a changing climate. Policy work ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Extreme Heat Can Impact Our Health in Many Ways
Climate change poses many risks to human health. Some health impacts of climate change are already being felt in the United States. We need to safeguard our communities by protecting people’s health, wellbeing, and quality of life from climate change impacts. Many communities are already taking steps to address these public health ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Extreme Rainfall and Drought
Climate change poses many risks to human health. Some health impacts of climate change are already being felt in the United States. We need to safeguard our communities by protecting people’s health, wellbeing, and quality of life from climate change impacts. Many communities are already taking steps to address these public health ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change Increases the Number and Geographic Range of Disease-Carrying Insects and Ticks
Climate change poses many risks to human health. Some health impacts of climate change are already being felt in the United States. We need to safeguard our communities by protecting people’s health, wellbeing, and quality of life from climate change impacts. Many communities are already taking steps to address these public health ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Warmer Water and Flooding Increase the Risk of Illness and Injury
Climate change poses many risks to human health. Some health impacts of climate change are already being felt in the United States. We need to safeguard our communities by protecting people’s health, wellbeing, and quality of life from climate change impacts. Many communities are already taking steps to address these public health ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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How Public Health can Address Climate Change
Greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are increasing the earth’s temperature, resulting in extreme weather events that have serious health consequences. Vulnerable communities will likely have some of the greatest exposures to climate‐related health impacts and the fewest resources to confront them. This is a public health ...
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 Health Equity
Whether through sea level rise, droughts, or heat waves, the populations most vulnerable to climate-related health impacts are the same communities that experience health inequities, the unjust and avoidable disparities in health outcomes. These include the elderly, children, communities of color, and those unable to afford food, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health and Equity Co-Benefits of Addressing Climate Change
Climate change mitigation and readiness measures are being implemented in land use, transportation, water, energy, waste, agriculture, and more. Many climate action strategies also have significant beneficial effects on public health and equity, known as co-benefits, making climate change action a “win-win”. Some health ...
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 ...