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20 Apr 2018 |
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Health Equity and Community Engagement Report
This Bay Area Regional Summary report combines the data from all Local Health Jurisdiction reports and describes perspectives of both Local Health Departments and community agency staff on key themes that emerged in discussions from the focus groups conducted. The data results presented show local priorities in health inequities and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Training Manual: Climate and Health
IFMSA is proudly launching today a training manual, titled Climate and Health: Enabling Students and Young Professionals to Understand and Act Upon Climate Change Using a Health Narrative, developed in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO), and the United Nations Alliance on Climate Change Education, Training and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Geopolitics of Climate Change – A Civil Rights Perspective
An African American family making $50-$60,000 per year is more likely to live next to a toxic facility than a White American family making $10-$15,000 per year. One example of these toxic facilities is the thousands of coal fired power plants that are the number one contributor to the carbon dioxide emissions that drive climate […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Equity in Building Resilience in Adaptation Planning
Over the years we’ve seen increase in heat waves, droughts, extreme weather, sea levels, and, though we are all impacted, it is the most vulnerable communities and countries who are bearing the brunt of the effects. While we work to stem the tide of climate change, we must adapt to the clear and present danger […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Heads They Win, Tails We Lose: How Corporations Corrupt Science at the Public’s Expense
Access to the best available science allows federal decision makers to craft policies that protect our health and safety and the environment. Unfortunately, censorship of scientists and the manipulation, distortion, and suppression of scientific information has threatened the federal scientific enterprise in recent years. This ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Doctors taking action on climate change
The scientific community has expressed in no uncertain terms that the Earth’s climate is rapidly approaching a threshold, beyond which there are likely to be major and irreversible changes. The BMA recognises the important role doctors have in tackling climate change and promoting the public health benefits of low carbon ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Webinar: Extreme Weather: Impacts on Public Health
The first in a series of climate change webinars from PSR. This webinar, held May 30, 2013, features Executive Director Dr. Catherine Thomasson discussing the health impacts of climate change and Director of Environment & Health Barbara Gottlieb demonstrating how to write a letter to the editor on climate change.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Position Statement on Crude Oil Transport & Storage
Energy companies have proposed increases in oil-by-rail transport and storage in the states of Washington and Oregon with subsequent ocean shipments from Pacific Northwest ports. While there was no movement of oil-by-rail in Washington three years ago, dramatic increases in oil extraction from the Bakken fields in North Dakota and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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An Open Letter to the Governors of the Nation
The physicians, nurses, other health practitioners, public health professionals implore the governors of the United States to support and advance the Clean Power Plan to help protect the health of Americans from the threats to health and survival posed by climate change. They encourage movement forward to develop and submit the State ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Op-Ed: Treating Climate Change in Los Angeles
In 2009, The Lancet Commission stated that “climate change is the greatest global health threat of the 21st century.” On June 23, 2015, this international group of health, climate, and economic experts released a new report in the medical journal, The Lancet, confirming the adverse consequences that climate change will have on ...