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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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Complete Parks Playbook
Parks bring numerous health, social, economic, and environmental benefits to a community, and every person in every neighborhood should be able to enjoy these benefits. Unfortunately, too many cities and counties are “park poor,” lacking adequate parks and green spaces. Low-income communities often have the fewest (and ...
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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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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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 ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Health Benefits of Mitigating Climate Change
Anthropogenic climate change poses a major threat to human physical and psychological health. However, it can be mitigated by reducing the emission of greenhouse gases. This Position Statement outlines four major mitigation strategies and associated health benefits most relevant to Australia and New Zealand. These strategies are: a) ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Environmentally Sustainable Healthcare
An environmentally sustainable healthcare system is one that has no cumulative harmful impacts on the natural environment or society, while providing high-quality healthcare and being financially viable. ‘Green’ initiatives such as improving energy efficiency and promoting recycling are important, but healthcare organisations ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Leveraging Hospital Community Benefit Activities to Address Climate Change and Environmental Risks
The Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) and community benefit implementation strategies provide a framework to support community activities that address local health priorities and climate change or other environmental risks. Many think of climate change as an energy issue because the discussion focuses on reducing fossil fuels ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Latino Commnities at Risk: The Impact of Air Pollution from the Oil and Gas Industry
The oil and gas industry dumps 9 million tons of methane and toxic pollutants like benzene into our air each year. Methane is a greenhouse gas 87 times more potent than carbon dioxide at driving climate change and the oil and gas industry is now the largest source of methane in the U.S. But methane […]