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Taxonomy Archive: social determinants of health
20 Apr 2018 |
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Ease climate change impact on young, poor, vulnerable: medical doctors to new leaders
The Philippine College of Physicians supports the call of other groups to craft and implement policies that will ease the burden of climate change impact on the health of the young, the poor, and other vulnerable sectors.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Healthy Environments for All: Good for Families, Communities, and the Economy
The face of America is changing: more than half of Americans under age five are of color, and by 2044 we will be a majority people-of-color nation. But while communities of color are driving growth and becoming a larger share of the population, inequality is on the rise and racial inequities remain wide and persistent. […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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COP21 SERIES Reshaping the landscape: The geography of human rights, climate change, and disasters
When leaders gather in Paris to discuss serious measures to address climate change this December, they will be surrounded by a city and region that, in recent decades, has spent its summers grappling with deadly heat. The ongoing effects of these annual climatic threats may not be visible from the Paris-Le Bourget site in December, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Gender Justice
Melting ice-caps, freak storms, the search for ‘green’ forms of transport and the international carbon trading system; superfi cially, both the impact of human-induced climate change and the policies adopted in response to it may seem gender-neutral. In reality though, there are complex and dynamic links between gender relations ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health Equity and Inclusion Program Strategies
A tool to identify opportunities to support/enhance equity, diversity and inclusion, and reduce disparate impact in programs and services.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Drought Frames Economic Divide of Californians
Alysia Thomas, a stay-at-home mother in this working-class city, tells her children to skip a bath on days when they do not play outside; that holds down the water bill. Lillian Barrera, a housekeeper who travels 25 miles to clean homes in Beverly Hills, serves dinner to her family on paper plates for much the […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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In East Porterville, drought escalates mental health issues
Manuel León’s fight for his own life began long before la sequía – the drought – swallowed up the water under his East Porterville home and with it, his only escape from reality.He was sick before the backyard cherry, apple and pear trees shriveled, before the onions and roses wilted, before his vivid green lawn […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Vulnerable Populations Perceive Their Health as at Risk from Climate Change
Climate change is already taking a toll on human health, a toll that is likely to increase in coming decades. The relationship between risk perceptions and vulnerability to climate change’s health threats has received little attention, even though an understanding of the dynamics of adaptation among particularly susceptible ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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New climate and socio-economic scenarios for assessing global human health challenges due to heat risk
Motivated by growing heat-related morbidity and mortality in a warming climate, this paper assesses global heat health risk in order to understand the challenges to sustainability in the 21st century, using four Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) of the HadGEM2-ES climate model and five Shared Socio-Economic Pathways ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Justice in Rural Southeastern United States: A review of Climate Change Impacts and Effects on Human Health
Climate justice is a local, national, and global movement to protect at-risk populations who are disproportionately affected by climate change. The social context for this review is the Southeastern region of the United States, which is particularly susceptible to climate change because of the geography of the area and the ...