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20 Apr 2018 |
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Health and Climate Change: 7 Ways You Are Being Harmed
About their pace, their pain, and traffic, mostly
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change: challenges and opportunities for global health
IMPORTANCE: Health is inextricably linked to climate change. It is important for clinicians to understand this relationship in order to discuss associated health risks with their patients and to inform public policy. OBJECTIVES: To provide new US-based temperature projections from downscaled climate modeling and to review recent ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change: present and future risks to health, and necessary responses
Recent observed changes in Earth’s climate, to which humans have contributed substantially, are affecting various health outcomes. These include altered distributions of some infectious disease vectors (ticks at high latitudes, malaria mosquitoes at high altitudes), and an uptrend in extreme weather events and associated ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Connecting the global climate change and public health agendas
Peter Byass and colleagues urge public health professionals to strengthen their response and develop actions to bring health and climate co-benefits.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Impact of diurnal temperature range on human health: a systematic review
Increasing epidemiological studies have shown that a rapid temperature change within 1 day is an independent risk factor for human health. This paper aimed to systematically review the epidemiological evidence on the relationship between diurnal temperature range (DTR) and human health and to propose future research directions. A ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Potential changes in disease patterns and pharmaceutical use in response to climate change
As climate change alters environmental conditions, the incidence and global patterns of human diseases are changing. These modifications to disease profiles and the effects upon human pharmaceutical usage are discussed. Climate-related environmental changes are associated with a rise in the incidence of chronic diseases already ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The effectiveness of public health interventions to reduce the health impact of climate change: a systematic review of systematic reviews
BACKGROUND: Climate change is likely to be one of the most important threats to public health in the coming years. Yet despite the large number of papers considering the health impact of climate change, few have considered what public health interventions may be of most value in reducing the disease burden. We aimed to evaluate […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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The health effects of climate change: a survey of recent quantitative research
In recent years there has been a large scientific and public debate on climate change and its direct as well as indirect effects on human health. In particular, a large amount of research on the effects of climate changes on human health has addressed two fundamental questions. First, can historical data be of some help […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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The challenge of health & environment: profiling risks & strategic priorities for now & the future
A substantial burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases in the developing countries is attributable to environmental risk factors. WHO estimates that the environmental factors are responsible for an estimated 24 per cent of the global burden of disease in terms of healthy life years lost and 23 per cent of all deaths; ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change: Our greatest health threat, or our greatest opportunity for better health?
This short video produced by the Global Climate and Health Alliance explains how climate change threatens human health and the perspective that this challenge is an opportunity to improve health and equity.