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20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and eHealth: a promising strategy for health sector mitigation and adaptation
Climate change is one of today’s most pressing global issues. Policies to guide mitigation and adaptation are needed to avoid the devastating impacts of climate change. The health sector is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in developed countries, and its climate impact in low-income countries is growing ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and food security: health impacts in developed countries
BACKGROUND: Anthropogenic climate change will affect global food production, with uncertain consequences for human health in developed countries. OBJECTIVES: We investigated the potential impact of climate change on food security (nutrition and food safety) and the implications for human health in developed countries. METHODS: Expert ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and infectious diseases in Australia: future prospects, adaptation options, and research priorities
Climate change will have significant and diverse impacts on human health. These impacts will include changes in infectious disease incidence. In this article, the authors review the current situation and potential future climate change impacts for respiratory, diarrheal, and vector-borne diseases in Australia. Based on this review, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and its impact on allergic rhinitis and other allergic respiratory diseases
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To discuss current evidence of global climate change and its implications for allergic rhinitis and other allergic respiratory diseases. RECENT FINDINGS: Global climate change is evidenced by increasing average earth temperature, increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gas levels, and elevated pollen levels. Pollutants ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Uncertainty Handbook
If you have ever struggled with the communication of uncertainty, then this handbook is for you. It distils the most important research findings and expert advice into a few pages of practical, easyto- apply techniques providing scientists, policy-makers and campaigners with the tools they need to communicate more effectively around ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and Occupational Health and Safety in a temperate climate: potential impacts and research priorities in Quebec, Canada
The potential impacts of climate change (CC) on Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) have been studied a little in tropical countries, while they received no attention in northern industrialized countries with a temperate climate. This work aimed to establish an overview of the potential links between CC and OHS in those countries ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and respiratory health
OBJECTIVE: To discuss the nature of climate change and both its immediate and long-term effects on human respiratory health. METHODS: This review is based on information from a presentation of the American College of Chest Physicians course on Occupational and Environmental Lung Disease held in Toronto, Canada, June 2013. It is ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and skin
Global climate appears to be changing at an unprecedented rate. Climate change can be caused by several factors that include variations in solar radiation received by earth, oceanic processes (such as oceanic circulation), plate tectonics, and volcanic eruptions, as well as human-induced alterations of the natural world. Many human ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change: could it help develop ‘adaptive expertise’?
Preparing health practitioners to respond to the rising burden of disease from climate change is emerging as a priority in health workforce policy and planning. However, this issue is hardly represented in the medical education research. The rapidly evolving wide range of direct and indirect consequences of climate change will ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change, extreme weather events, air pollution and respiratory health in Europe
Due to climate change and other factors, air pollution patterns are changing in several urbanised areas of the world, with a significant effect on respiratory health both independently and synergistically with weather conditions; climate scenarios show Europe as one of the most vulnerable regions. European studies on heatwave ...