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Taxonomy Archive: Climate and environmental justice/health equity
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Global Climate Change and Human Health
The American Medical Association’s Environmental Health policy related to Global Climate Change and Health outlines the recognition of and commitment to addressing the health impacts of climate change.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Coal’s Public Health and Safety Impacts
Representatives of the Alameda County Public Health Department drafted this letter to express concerns about and recommendations for preventing the potential negative health and safety impacts of the proposed coal export project at the former Oakland Army Base.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Public Health Opportunities to Address the Health Effects of Climate Change
Climate change poses major threats to human health, human and animal populations, ecological stability, and human social, financial, and political stability and well-being. Observed health impacts of climate change include increased heat-related morbidity and mortality, expanded ranges and frequency of infectious disease outbreaks, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Position Statement on Climate Change
NCEJN developed a statement to explain our environmental justice perspective on climate change to predominantly white environmental groups that seek to partner with us. NCEJN opposes strategies that reduce greenhouse emissions while maintaining or magnifying existing social, economic, and environmental injustices. Wealthy communities ...
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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Addressing Inequities at the Intersection of Health and Climate Change: Workshop Summary Report
The purpose of this workshop was to explore how we can find common ground between the research and policy agendas of climate change and health in order to decrease greenhouse gases while improving health outcomes for those populations that are most at risk. Specifically, this workshop aimed to achieve the following objectives: 1) ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Policy Approaches to Reducing Health Inequalities
Health inequalities are understood to be unfair and systematic differences in health among and between social groups – differences which need to be addressed through action. These result from social and political circumstances and are therefore potentially avoidable. To address these inequalities, the relationships between the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Our People, Our Planet, Our Power
Over nine months, Puget Sound Sage and Got Green set out to learn how our communities were experiencing climate change. Led by the Climate Justice committee, we interviewed 175 people living in South Seattle/King County and 30 organizations with the goal of determining our collective priorities and lift up the message that poor ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Poll Shows African Americans Strongly Back Climate Action
Two-thirds of African Americans believe global warming is a serious problem, they want action more than the population at large and they overwhelmingly support the Clean Power Plan to address the growing climate crisis, a major new poll released today shows.Fully 83 percent of African Americans back setting the first-ever limits on ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Health Impacts of Energy Choices: A Briefing Paper for the Health Community
Access to energy for cooking, heating, transport, and productive activities is essential to human health. Access to electricity is also critical to improving health service delivery, strengthening health systems, and achieving universal health coverage. As the World Health Organization (WHO) observes, “energy access in health ...