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20 Apr 2018 |
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Air Quality and Health Co-Benefits of a Carbon Fee-and-Rebate Bill in Massachusetts
This report builds a model to calculate the health co-benefits that would result from a carbon fee in Massachusetts. The results indicate that the health co-benefits of a carbon fee in Massachusetts can be substantial, even though the policy was not designed as a public health measure. The annual health benefits of the carbon fee ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Air pollution: An important risk factor for cardiovascular disease
A pioneering researcher in the field of environmental cardiology, Dr. Brook focuses on how air pollutants cause heart disease and trigger cardiovascular events.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Protecting the Health and Well-Being of Communities in a Changing Climate: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief
On March 13, 2017, the Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine and the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement held a 1-day public workshop at the National Academy of Sciences building in Washington, DC. Participants discussed regional, state, and local efforts to mitigate and adapt to health ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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A Breath of Fresh Air: Addressing Climate Change and Air Pollution Together for Health
This report from the Alliance considers the ways in which integrated strategies to address air pollution and climate change will simultaneously lead to greater health benefits and cost-savings, than strategies which address them separately. It is clear that in order to protect health and wellbeing from the dangerous impacts of ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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SCIENCE IS LINKING FOSSIL FUELS AND NEUROLOGICAL DAMAGE
Both individually and in combination, the chemicals in air pollution are causing or are implicated in a disturbingly wide range of serious health problems that extend far beyond asthma, heat-related distress and infectious diseases. Over the last ten years, peer-reviewed research findings from academic centers around the world have ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate-Smart Healthcare: Low-Carbon and Resilience Strategies for the Health Sector
Climate mitigation, adaptation, and low-carbon and resilient health development strategies reduce emissions, build healthcare climate resilience, and provide significant health and economic co-benefits. Climate-smart healthcare will strengthen health sectors and communities by ensuring access to clean and independent energy, safe ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Ask Your Doctor if the Paris Climate Agreement Is Right for You
Op-Ed: At its core, the climate crisis is a public health crisis. Although physicians have been somewhat late to the game, they are now getting on board in a big way. Article summarizes some of the recent developments in health professionals and organizations acting on climate.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Analysis of the Public Health Impacts of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, 2009–2014
This independent study provides an analysis of the public health impacts of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) over its first six years of implementation (2009 to 2014). It found that the RGGI program improved air quality throughout the Northeast states and created major benefits to public health and productivity, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Second Global Conference on Health & Climate: “Building Healthier Societies Through Implementation of the Paris Agreement” Conference Conclusions and Action Agenda
This document includes conclusions and an action agenda resulting from the conference. The conference responded to the commitments of Parties to the UNFCCC to protect and promote health, and their requests through the World Health Assembly and WHO Executive Board, to renew and reinforce the engagement of the health community to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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CLIMATE AND HEALTH COUNTRY PROFILE – 2015 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
This graphic document summarizes the key findings and opportunities for action regarding climate change—and health—in the US. Topics include implications for health during extreme weather events, heat, changes in policy and governance, etc.