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20 Apr 2018 |
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An approach to developing local climate change environmental public health indicators, vulnerability assessments, and projections of future impacts
Environmental public health indicators (EPHIs) are used by local, state, and federal health agencies to track the status of environmental hazards; exposure to those hazards; health effects of exposure; and public health interventions designed to reduce or prevent the hazard, exposure, or resulting health effect. Climate and health ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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An ill wind? Climate change, migration, and health
BACKGROUND: Climate change is projected to cause substantial increases in population movement in coming decades. Previous research has considered the likely causal influences and magnitude of such movements and the risks to national and international security. There has been little research on the consequences of climate-related ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Anthropogenic climate change and allergen exposure: The role of plant biology
Accumulation of anthropogenic gases, particularly CO(2), is likely to have 2 fundamental effects on plant biology. The first is an indirect effect through Earth’s increasing average surface temperatures, with subsequent effects on other aspects of climate, such as rainfall and extreme weather events. The second is a direct ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Adapting to extreme heat events, guidelines for assessing health vulnerability
”A major component of public health efforts to protect people from extreme heat events centres on assessments of individual and community level vulnerability. Adapting to Extreme Heat Events: Guidelines for Assessing Health Vulnerability provides an overview of the vulnerability assessment methodology that has been developed by ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Communicating the health risks of extreme heat events toolkit for public health and emergency management officials
This Toolkit is intended for use by public health and emergency management officials who are developing or updating heat-health communication strategies. It is designed to gide the development of targeted heat-health communication campaigns and necessary outreach products for specific audiences.To this end the Toolkit provides: 1.) ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Improving Thermal Comfort in Windsor, ON; Assessing Urban Parks and Playgrounds
City parks offer Windsor residents an area where they can enjoy the outdoors and maintain their physical activity. Urban parks are known to have lower temperatures compared to their surrounding environment, mainly due to the presence of vegetation. Despite this, parks are still affected by high temperatures caused by the urban heat ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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It’s way too hot! Protect Yourself from Extreme Heat
The brochures are intended for two audiences: Officials who are developing or updating heat-health communication campaigns Individuals interested in health risks and actions to take to stay healthy during extreme heat.This brochure is specifically for adults/older adults.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Protecting health from climate change: vulnerability and adaptation assessment
This document is designed to provide basic and flexible guidance on conducting a national or subnational assessment of current and future vulnerability (i.e. the susceptibility of a population or region to harm) to the health risks of climate change, and of policies and programmes that could increase resilience, taking into account ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Public Health Impacts of Climate Change in California: Community Vulnerability Assessments and Adaptation Strategies Report No. 1: Heat-Related Illness and Mortality, Information for the Public Health Network in California
The primary objective of this community vulnerability assessment is to identify locations and/or populations with high risk for heat-related illness. To develop a model of community vulnerability we evaluated: (1) past heat waves and published literature to identify risk factors for heat-related ilness (2) a selected set of ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Are cars the new tobacco?
BACKGROUND: Public health must continually respond to new threats reflecting wider societal changes. Ecological public health recognizes the links between human health and global sustainability. We argue that these links are typified by the harms caused by dependence on private cars. METHODS: We present routine data and literature on ...