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20 Apr 2018 |
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Reducing Global Health Risks Through MItigation of Short-Lived Climate Pollutants: Scoping report for policymakers
This report was developed as a policy-relevant summary of potential benefits to health from reducing emissions of short-lived climate pollutants. The report brings together available knowledge from the health and climate domain into one scoping review. The document provides information on direct and indirect health effects of SLCPs ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Let’s Talk Health & Climate: Communication Guidance for Health Professionals
EcoAmerica’s brand new communications guide, Let’s Talk Health and Climate, combines values research, communications, and specific messaging into a single resource, so health professionals can learn how to create messaging that truly resonates with the health and healthcare audience. EcoAmerica’s research shows that ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Hydraulic Fracturing and Your Health: Water Contamination
Fracking operations consume and contaminate enormous quantities of water. In order to fracture a single well site, natural gas companies typically use over 4 million gallons of water. This amount of water is equivalent to what 11,000 American families use in a day. Such intensive water use has become an issue in states such as […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Inform Policy Makers in Your State about the Health Benefits of Implementing the Clean Power Plan: A Brief Toolkit for Clinicians and Public Health Professionals
Climate change, together with other natural and human-made health stressors, influence human health and disease in numerous ways. Some existing health threats will intensify and new health threats will emerge. Not everyone is equally at risk. Important considerations include age, economic resources, and location. Preventive and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change & Health Equity: Issue Brief
Climate change threatens the health and well-being of California’s diverse population of nearly 38 million people and poses immense challenges for achieving health equity. While all Californians are impacted by climate change, the populations most vulnerable to the health impacts of climate change are the same communities that ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Toward an Understanding of the Environmental and Public Health Impacts of Unconventional Natural Gas Development: A Categorical Assessment of the Peer-Reviewed Scientific Literature, 2009-2015
The body of science evaluating the potential impacts of unconventional natural gas development (UNGD) has grown significantly in recent years, although many data gaps remain. Still, a broad empirical understanding of the impacts is beginning to emerge amidst a swell of research. The present categorical assessment provides an overview ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Overflow: Climate Change, Heavy Rain, and Sewage
Record rainstorms across the U.S. in the past year have continued to make national news, causing billions of dollars of flood damage and killing dozens. But what has barely made headlines are that these floods often cause massive overflows of untreated sewage into streams, rivers, bays, canals, and even streets and homes. Climate ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Hojas informativas: El cambio climatico, la salud y las poblaciones que nos preocupan
El entender las amenazas que el cambio climático representa para la salud humana nos puede ayudar a trabajar juntos para aminorar los riesgos y estar preparados. El cambio climático amenaza la salud humana, inclusive la salud mental, así como el acceso al aire limpio, el agua potable segura, la alimentación nutritiva y el ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Drought and Equity in the San Francisco Bay Area
California is now in the fifth year of a drought of extreme proportions. Cumulative precipitation between 2011 and 2014 was a record low of 40 inches, compared to a historical average of 70 inches (CNAP 2014). Precipitation in late 2015 and early 2016 brought welcome relief, but it was not enough to offset the four-year […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health Position Statement
Anthropogenic climate change is a global public health emergency. It is, at the same time, a major threat and a major opportunity for planetary health and health equity. This document is the first in a series of three Position Statements by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) on climate change and health. It addresses ...