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20 Apr 2018 |
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The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change
The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change is an international, multidisciplinary research collaboration between academic institutions and practitioners across the world. It follows on from the work of the 2015 Lancet Commission, which concluded that the response to climate change could be “the greatest ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Temperature Extremes, Health, and Human Capital
The extreme temperatures expected under climate change may be especially harmful to children. Children are more vulnerable to heat partly because of their physiological features, but, perhaps more important, because they behave and respond differently than adults do. Children are less likely to manage their own heat risk and may have ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Clean Power Plan: A Public Health Victory Needing Medical Attention
On August 3, 2015 the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued guidelines to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from power plants. This action, known as the Clean Power Plan, is the single biggest step the United States has taken to address climate change. CO2 accounts for more than 80% of greenhouse gas ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health Talking Points
American College of Physicians (ACP) presents a series of climate change and talking points for physicians in this brief document.
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Importance of Reducing Animal Product Consumption and Wasted Food in Mitigating Catastrophic Climate Change
This report, prepared in advance of the United Nations Conference of the Parties 21 (COP21) in Paris, reviews the scientific literature on the roles of reducing animal product consumption and wasted food in meeting climate change mitigation targets.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Racial and socioeconomic disparities in heat-related health effects and their mechanisms: a review
Adaptation to increasing extreme heat in a changing climate requires a precise understanding of who is most vulnerable to the health effects of extreme heat. The evidence for race, ethnicity, income, education and occupation, at the individual and area levels, as indicators of vulnerability is reviewed. The evidence for the social, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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A new ‘dimension’ to infectious disease: Climate change
The northward expansion of these ticks has been linked to climate change, but the problem is not limited to Lyme disease. According to experts, the rapid warming of the Earth — which is explicitly linked to human dependence on fossil fuels — can increase the reproduction rates of bacteria and viruses like malaria and dengue, […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Columbia University- Climate Change: Public Health Preparedness and Response
Without substantial changes in emissions rates, climate change from the buildup of greenhouse gases is likely to lead to extensive transformations of U.S. ecosystems and coastlines later this century. The U.S. Department of Defense’s 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review recently determined that climate change will contribute to food ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Global Warming: Why Public Health Professionals Care, and Why You Should Too.
A 30 minute “lunch and learn” style presentation created by George Mason Center for Climate Change Communication, designed to help public health professionals commuicate effectively about climate change.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Congressional Review Act Letter- February, 2017
On behalf of the tens of thousands of members of the undersigned medical and public health organizations, and the communities we serve, we strongly urge you to oppose any Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval that would block air pollution limits that address the leakage of methane, including the Bureau of Land ...