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Taxonomy Archive: vulnerable populations
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate and Health
Widespread scientific consensus exists that the world’s climate is changing. Some of these changes will likely include more variable weather, heat waves, heavy precipitation events, flooding, droughts, more intense storms, sea level rise, and air pollution. Each of these impacts could negatively affect public health. While climate ...
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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Climate Action is Health Action: Why Support for California Climate Legislation is Good for Our Health
Linda Rudolph, MD, MPH, director of PHI’s Center for Climate Change and Health, recently testified before the California State Assembly on SB 350, one of the key bills moving through the legislature, and serves as a national spokesperson to raise awareness of the connections between climate change and health. We sat down with Linda ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health Equity: How Can Climate Action Meet the Needs of the Most Vulnerable
Climate change and health inequity are two of the greatest challenges for health, and are related in complex ways. COP21 in Paris is a crucial opportunity to ensure that climate strategies of the future are designed to reduce health inequity and meet the needs of the most vulnerable populations. The Global Climate and Health Alliance ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Food Safety
This week, the 2015 World Health Day took place on April 7th, focusing on the theme of Food Safety, and included the production of many useful informational resources, accessible here.Following this, we have produced a briefing document which explores some of the main connections between climate change and food safety, including ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Guidance for Integrating Culturally Diverse Communities into Planning for and Responding to Emergencies: A Toolkit: Recommendations of the National Consensus Panel on Emergency Preparedness and Cultural Diversity
This toolkit offers a comprehensive framework and specific guidance for engaging communities to inform the integration of issues related to race, ethnicity, culture, language, and trust into preparedness plans, programs, and actions.By issuing the toolkit the Consensus Panel intends to achieve at least three goals: (1)To highlight ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Address causes of climate change to help alleviate effects on children
The American Academy of Pediatrics presents a discussion of the health impacts of climate change on children in particular. Children are an identified vulnerable population during times of extreme weather events, including heat and storms. The AAP advocates for a concerted effort and strategy to address the causes of climate change ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Environmental contaminants and human health in the Canadian Arctic
The third Canadian Arctic Human Health Assessment conducted under the Canadian Northern Contaminants Program (NCP), in association with the circumpolar Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), addresses concerns about possible adverse health effects in individuals exposed to environmental contaminants through a diet ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Interactions between HIV/AIDS and the environment: toward a syndemic framework
Although the social, economic, and political dimensions of the HIV/AIDS epidemic have been studied in considerable depth, the relationship between HIV/AIDS and its environmental causes and consequences remains largely unexplored. We reviewed the evidence of interactions between ecosystem health and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. We ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Indicators linking health and sustainability in the post-2015 development agenda
The UN-led discussion about the post-2015 sustainable development agenda provides an opportunity to develop indicators and targets that show the importance of health as a precondition for and an outcome of policies to promote sustainable development. Health as a precondition for development has received considerable attention in ...