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20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health Equity: How Can Climate Action Meet the Needs of the Most Vulnerable
Climate change and health inequity are two of the greatest challenges for health, and are related in complex ways. COP21 in Paris is a crucial opportunity to ensure that climate strategies of the future are designed to reduce health inequity and meet the needs of the most vulnerable populations. The Global Climate and Health Alliance ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Food Safety
This week, the 2015 World Health Day took place on April 7th, focusing on the theme of Food Safety, and included the production of many useful informational resources, accessible here.Following this, we have produced a briefing document which explores some of the main connections between climate change and food safety, including ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Guidance for Integrating Culturally Diverse Communities into Planning for and Responding to Emergencies: A Toolkit: Recommendations of the National Consensus Panel on Emergency Preparedness and Cultural Diversity
This toolkit offers a comprehensive framework and specific guidance for engaging communities to inform the integration of issues related to race, ethnicity, culture, language, and trust into preparedness plans, programs, and actions.By issuing the toolkit the Consensus Panel intends to achieve at least three goals: (1)To highlight ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Excessive Heat Events Guidebook
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has produced the Excessive Heat Events Guidebook with assistance from federal, state, and local and academic partners. Designed to help community officials, emergency managers, meteorologists, and others plan for and respond to excessive heat events, the guidebook highlights best practices ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Reducing Urban Heat Islands: Compendium of Strategies | Heat Island Effect | US EPA
Links to PDF versions of the Reducing Urban Heat Islands: Compendium of Strategies publication
20 Apr 2018 |
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A Review of the Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Aeroallergens and Their Associated Effects
This report assesses the state of the scientific literature and examines the potential effects of climate variability and change on aeroallergens and their associated health outcomes in the United States.
20 Apr 2018 |
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WMA Declaration of Delhi on Health and Climate Change
The purpose of this document is to provide a response by the WMA on behalf of its members to the challenges imposed on health and healthcare systems by climate change. Although governments and international organizations have the main responsibility for creating regulations and legislation to mitigate the effects of climate change ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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WMA Statement on the Role of Physicians in Environmental Issues
WMA Statement on the Role of Physicians in Environmental Issues
20 Apr 2018 |
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Fossil fuels are the new tobacco when it comes to health risk
As future doctors we call on the Wellcome Trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to remove their investments from fossil fuel companies. We share a responsibility to our future patients to address unmitigated climate change – described as “the biggest health threat of the 21st century” – and to advocate for a ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Wildfires Spark Public Health Warnings from State Officials
Dawn Mullally, director of air quality and transportation with the American Lung Association in Colorado, says exposure to particulates in smoke, even from distant fires, can impact the upper respiratory system. “People who have asthma or respiratory issues, their symptoms are going to increase,” she points out. ...