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20 Apr 2018 |
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Briefing: after the Paris climate talks— what next for migration and displacement linked to climate change?
Climate change has the power to re-shape patterns of migration and displacement across the world. For this reason migration and displacement have been part of the international climate change negotiations for a number of years.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Case Studies Series: Using Health Impact Assessment to Identify the Best Investment in Energy Efficiency and Health
Despite the recent decrease in the cost of utility service for many Americans, access to reliable, affordable heat, air-conditioning, and lights remains a challenge and an underappreciated social determinant of health related to housing. Renewable energy and sustainability mandates, climate change planning, and infrastructure ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Cities, green infrastructure and health
Most people in the UK live in towns and cities and will continue to do so. They need places close to home, in those same towns and cities, where their physical and mental health problems can be addressed. But there is a huge and growing concern about the costs of treating ill health, partially a […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate action is healthcare outside the clinic
For years human health resided in a different ‘box’ than climate health. At first, healthcare professionals themselves didn’t recognize climate change would have an effect on their health or on their work. Then in 2009 the Lancet stunned us all with the pronouncement that “Climate change is the greatest global health threat ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Shocke Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty
Ending poverty and addressing climate change are the two defining issues of our time. Both are essential to achieving sustainable global development. But they cannot be considered in isolation. This report brings together these two overarching objectives and explores how they can be more easily achieved if considered together. It ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health Policy Assessment Project Report: A Global Survey 2015
A report on the results from a global survey to evaluate the actions of national governments in protecting the health of their citizens from the impacts of climate change.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change
ASTHO is helping states prepare for the possibility of health effects related to climate change in the same way they prepare for the possibilities of bioterrorism and natural disasters. Recent programs have looked at possible health risks from increased heat, changes in vector-borne disease patterns, and transmission of waterborne ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Vector-Borne Disease
Climate change creates new uncertainties about the spread of diseases such as the Zika virus, dengue fever, malaria, and Lyme disease, which are carried by insects known as vectors, like mosquitoes, ticks, and flies. By altering conditions—local temperatures, rainfall and population movements—that determine the spread of the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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People’s Test on Climate 2015
Nothing less than a systemic transformation of our societies, our economies, and our world will suffice to solve the climate crisis and close the ever-increasing inequality gap. After over 20 years of stunted and ineffective action to reduce climate pollution by governments – particularly in wealthy countries that have failed to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Patient Facts: Climate Change and Your Health
There is clear proof that the world’s climate is changing. These changes will affect the usual, expected weather patterns. They are caused by human activities, like operating factories, driving vehicles, and pollution. Climate change could have a serious effect on the health of the public.