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Taxonomy Archive: vulnerable populations
20 Apr 2018 |
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Fossil fuels don’t just change the climate, they impact our children’s health
As you likely know, the pollution that comes out of tailpipes and smokestacks contributes to climate change, which increases the probability of extreme flooding, intense storms, and heat waves. Dr. Perera’s article points to such a heat wave in California in 2006, where 2,500 children were admitted to emergency rooms. And, as a ...
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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Global Health Professionals Call for Transition Away from Coal
On behalf of health professionals around the world, we call on the G7 nations to accelerate the global transition away from coalfired electricity. Eliminating air pollution from coalfired power plants provides immediate and significant air pollutionrelated health benefits and health care savings. A coal phaseout also slows ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Older People and Climate Change: Vulnerability and Health Effects
Climate change has the potential to affect the environment in a number of ways that place increased stress on everyone, but disproportionately on the most vulnerable populations, including the young, the old, those with chronic illness, and the poor. Older people are among the most at risk because of decreased mobility resulting from ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change is making farm work more dangerous than it already is
Heat is the number one weather-related killer in the U.S., claiming between 600 and 1,500 lives each summer. The danger is particularly acute in California’s agricultural inland regions like the Coachella Valley and Central Valley, where climate change and drought are producing heat waves that are increasingly severe.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Coal Blooded
This is “Coal Blooded” by Jacqueline Patterson on Vimeo.Here first hand from communities directly affected by coal fired power plants that were ranked in the Coal Blooded Report, including: State Line Generating Plant in Hammond, Indiana; Gallagher Generating Station in New Albany, Indiana; Cherokee Generating Station in ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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A Healthier Community, A Healthier Climate
What if our response to climate change created healthier communities? Could healthier habits lessen climate change?Oakland, California, a city of struggle and progress, is looking for the answers. Just like climate change, the city’s problems often feel unfixable, but Oakland’s healthy policies make us global leaders in the ...
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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The Health Practitioner’s Guide to Climate Change: Diagnosis and Cure
There are enormous health benefits from tackling climate change. This is the first book to set out what health practitioners can do to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, to make health services sustainable, and to design healthy, sustainable communities.
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.