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Taxonomy Archive: vulnerable populations
20 Apr 2018 |
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Nurses, climate change and health
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) concurs with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that climate change has emerged as a new threat to public health. ICN acknowledges climate change as an important issue for the nursing profession, particularly in light of the impact on people’s health and nursing’s shared ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change: Assessing effects on health and wealth of populations
Can the health consequences of climate change be at the center of discussions at this year’s climate summit in Paris? Very possibly. Pope Francis’ encyclical letter and The Lancet’s excellent report on the topic give us hope. Now the World Federation of Public Health Associations (whose Federation’s Pages we publish in JPHP) ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Resilience and Urban Opportunity Initiative
Kresge’s Environment Program is launching an initiative to assist community-based nonprofits positioned to help influence local and regional climate-resilience planning, and related policy development and implementation. Support provided through the initiative focuses on improving the resilience of low-income, urban communities in ...
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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Extreme events as sources of health vulnerability: Drought as an example
The health risks of climate change arise from the interactions of the hazards associated with a changing climate (e.g. increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather and climate events, such as drought), the communities exposed to those hazards, the susceptibility of communities to adverse health impacts when exposed, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Fact Sheet: What Climate Change Means for Your Health and Family
Developed over three years by approximately one hundred experts in climate-change science and public health – including representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Aeronautics and Space ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Impact of Climate Change on Alaska Native Communities
Alaska Natives have always expected fluctuations from year-to-year in weather, hunting conditions, ice patterns and animal populations, but since 1970’s they have noticed many indications of major climate change.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Food Insecurity and the California Drought
No other drought has severely affected the state of California within the past century like the 2014 drought. In 2014, California faced its third year of drought, which tightened resources statewide. Agriculture, businesses and residents alike faced losses caused by the state’s water deficit. One important implication of the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Food security under climate change
Using food prices to assess climate change impacts on food security is misleading. Differential impacts on income require a broader measure of household well-being, such as changes in absolute poverty.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Heat Alert and Response Systems to Protect Health: Best Practices Guidebook
Extreme heat poses growing risks to the health of Canadians. Public health and emergency management officials in several Canadian communities are developing interventions to reduce heat-health risks and to prepare for the expected increase in the frequency, duration and severity of extreme heat events due to climate change. To help ...