US Climate and Health Alliance

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Taxonomy Archive: co-benefits/co-harms

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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.

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Apr 2018

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Benefits of Urban Greening

This factsheet is provided on the resource page of Friends of the Urban Forest and reviews the economic and health benfits of urban greening and forestry, including increased property values, cleaner air, and decreased water pollution.

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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.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Apr 2018

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Africa: Over 43 Million Africans Face Extreme Poverty Due to Climate Change By 2030

This brief article presents the potential impacts of climate change on the health and economic wellness of African populations. It covers the World Bank projections regarding the climate change impacts in 2030.

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Apr 2018

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Urban Green Spaces and an Integrative Approach to Sustainable Environment

This paper explains the benefits and challenges of urban green spaces based on the critical discussion of study results from different studies in different cities. The important roles played by green spaces are social, economic, cultural and environmental aspects of sustainable development. Urban green spaces can be a comprehensive ...

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Apr 2018

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Climate Change and Children’s Health: A Commentary

This commentary describes the likely impacts on children’s health and wellbeing from climate change, based on the solid science of environmental child health. It describes likely climate change scenarios, why children are more vulnerable than older people to these changes, and what to expect in terms of diseases (e.g., ...

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Apr 2018

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Report: Climate Change Already Affecting Americans’ Health

Climate change from human causes is already having negative health effects on humans, according to to a report released by the U.S. Global Change Research Program.According to the Climate and Health Assessment report, human-induced climate change is endangering our health by affecting “our food and water sources, the air we breathe ...

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Apr 2018

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NCDs & Climate Change: Shared Opportunities for Action

Climate change and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are two of the defining challenges of the 21st century, each posing significant threats to health and sustainable development. Climate change is projected to have increasingly damaging effects on communities and economies over the coming decades, being set to cause several hundred ...

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