Taxonomy Archive: author
20 Apr 2018 |
Climate change is causing more wildfires and more extreme storms. It is also harming our health. Climate change is a major threat to the health of people with asthma.
20 Apr 2018 |
El cambio climático está causando más incendios forestales y más tormentas extremas. También está dañando nuestra salud. El cambio climático es una de las principales amenazas para la salud de las personas que sufren de asma.
20 Apr 2018 |
This is not the time to limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s scope or throttle back its efforts. Americans should empower the agency to do more on behalf of our families and our standard of living. The agency’s successes are worthy of celebration; the cost of retreat is staggering. Did you know we could save an ...
20 Apr 2018 |
Tomorrow marks the eighth anniversary of the worst bushfires in Australian history – the Black Saturday fires in Victoria. This firestorm killed 173 people, injured 5000, affected 109 communities and damaged or destroyed 3500 buildings. For the doctors, nurses and psychologists called to respond, and who continue to deal with its ...
20 Apr 2018 |
Approaches to estimating and addressing the risk to children from fossil fuel combustion have been fragmented, tending to focus either on the toxic air emissions or on climate change. Yet developing children, and especially poor children, now bear a disproportionate burden of disease from both environmental pollution and climate ...
20 Apr 2018 |
Public health engagement in climate change is extremely important. Public health agencies need to prepare for climate impacts, and to ensure that climate action strategies promote optimal health and reduce health inequities. The health sector can play an important role in helping the public and policy makers understand the magnitude ...
20 Apr 2018 |
Most Americans understand that climate change is real and are concerned about it. But most still see climate change as a faraway threat, in both time and place, and as something that threatens the future of polar bears but not necessarily people. The reality, however, is starkly different: climate change is already causing problems ...
20 Apr 2018 |
Climate change poses both risks and opportunities for population health in Australia. Depending on the level of ambition and strategies chosen by the Federal Government, Australia’s climate policy will either negatively or positively drive health outcomes.
20 Apr 2018 |
Slowing the rapid growth of human population through strengthened voluntary family planning services would powerfully and inexpensively contribute to improvements in food security and the reduction of the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. A confluence of long-term environmental and population trends is undermining ...
20 Apr 2018 |
”Health is the human face of climate change” was the motivating idea behind the Climate and Health conference held at the Carter Center in Atlanta on Thursday, February 16, 2017. Originally scheduled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which then postponed it indefinitely, the meeting was resurrected ...