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20 Apr 2018 |
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A Call to Action: Training Public Health Students to Be Effective Agents for Social Change
In the 21st century, we face enormous public health challenges that differ fundamentally from those of the last century, because these challenges involve widespread societal change and complexity. To address these challenges, public health professionals need to be able to place their work in a larger social context, understand local ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Advancing the Framework for Considering the Effects of Climate Change on Worker Safety and Health
In 2009, a preliminary framework for how climate change could affect worker safety and health was described. That framework was based on a literature search from 1988-2008 that supported seven categories of climate-related occupational hazards: (1) increased ambient temperature; (2) air pollution; (3) ultraviolet exposure; (4) ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Urban Green Spaces and an Integrative Approach to Sustainable Environment
This paper explains the benefits and challenges of urban green spaces based on the critical discussion of study results from different studies in different cities. The important roles played by green spaces are social, economic, cultural and environmental aspects of sustainable development. Urban green spaces can be a comprehensive ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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American Thoracic Society Member Survey on Climate Change and Health
The American Thoracic Society (ATS), in collaboration with George Mason University, surveyed a random sample of ATS members to assess their perceptions of, clinical experiences with, and preferred policy responses to climate change. A larger majority anticipated seeing these climate-related health impacts in the next 2 decades. ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report: Climate Change and Human Health
This document presents the proceedings from the American Thoracic Society Climate Change and Respiratory Health Workshop that was held on May 15, 2010, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The purpose of the one-day meeting was to address the threat to global respiratory health posed by climate change. Domestic and international experts as ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Public Health, Energy & Climate Change: A Survey of Maryland Residents
Air pollution – closely followed by chemicals, flu epidemics, insect-borne disease, and obesity – stands at the top of risks that Marylanders say pose a significant threat to their personal health. Seventy percent of state residents say air pollution is a major or moderate risk to their health, with those in the urban corridor ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Children’s Health: A Commentary
This commentary describes the likely impacts on children’s health and wellbeing from climate change, based on the solid science of environmental child health. It describes likely climate change scenarios, why children are more vulnerable than older people to these changes, and what to expect in terms of diseases (e.g., ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health Inequities: A Framework for Action
Climate change has been identified as the greatest health challenge of the 21st century. Recently released reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the U.S. National Climate Assessment summarize the current effects of climate change on health, projections that these effects will surely increase, and the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health: Transcending Silos to Find Solutions
Climate change has myriad implications for the health of humans, our ecosystems, and the ecological processes that sustain them. Projections of rising greenhouse gas emissions suggest increasing direct and indirect burden of infectious and noninfectious disease, effects on food and water security, and other societal disruptions. As ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and human survival
The IPCC has already concluded that it is “virtually certain that human influence has warmed the global climate system” and that it is “extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010” is anthropogenic. Its new report outlines the future threats of further ...