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20 Apr 2018 |
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Why Do Pediatricians Care About Climate Change?
Pediatrician Samantha Ahdoot discusses the numerous health impacts on children associated with climate change. Children are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change due to their growing minds and bodies, necessitating pediatrician awareness and action.
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Impact on Women’s Health of Climatic and Economic Disaster
Globally, women and children are at greater risk both during and after a disaster and more women than men die in disasters. Climatic disaster affects women disproportionately as the risk is multiplied by women’s economic vulnerability. More women than men inhabit risk-prone localities and inadequate housing, and through poverty, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Schools, climate change and health promotion: a vital alliance
Through an ongoing project, we have been reviewing the literature addressing school planning for climate change related ecological disruptions and disasters, particularly for the special needs of children with disabilities. We have also examined related state education department policies from across Australia. Our preliminary ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Public health in a changing climate
Climate change poses both a threat and an opportunity for public health. This report reviews current local strategies and actions to address climate change by public health departments and their partners. It explores barriers and opportunities for action, and identifies recommendations for local and national policy and practice.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Obligations
This resolution seeks to unify the voices of Canadian Registered Nurses for healthy public policy provincially, territorially and nationally, in one of the defining challenges of our time: climate change. It seeks to strengthen the leadership that RNs have provided in this area, and in so doing, change public policy in a way that ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health
The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) believes that changes in our climate are occurring worldwide and that nurses have a role in supporting adaptation to and mitigation of climate change through nursing practice, research, administration, education and policy. The most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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“Reaching a tipping point”: Climate a key issue at World Health Assembly
Josh Karliner discusses how climate change — widely considered to be the greatest health threat of the century — was a major point of focus this year at the World Health Assembly in Geneva.
20 Apr 2018 |
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A Sting Exclusive: “Climate change- the biggest global health threat of the 21st century, yet overlooked in climate negotiations?” IFMSA wonders from COP21 in Paris
Leading medical journal, The Lancet, has named climate change the “biggest global health threat of the 21st century”. All the while this cross cutting issue does not receive much attention. IFMSA has set out on a mission to inform negotiators, press, fellow youth representatives, and everyone else who will listen, how we will ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Another View: Fracking threatens our children’s health
This brief opinion piece appeared in the Sacramento Bee in August 2015 discussing the health impacts associated with fracking on children. The piece advocates for renewable and clean energy alternatives.
20 Apr 2018 |
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As Temperatures Climb Across the Country, Workers Will Suffer
This blog post reviews the health risks to workers as the frequency and intensity of extreme heat events increases due to climate change.