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Taxonomy Archive: vulnerable populations
20 Apr 2018 |
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Clean Energy Packs Savings for Seniors
On June 2, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the Clean Power Plan, the first- ever limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants. Entrenched coal interests immediately seized on the proposal as one that would dramatically cut coal use, force the implementation of new and expensive technologies, and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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You’re active in the heat. You’re at risk! Protect Yourself from Extreme Heat
The brochures are intended for two audiences:Officials who are developing or updating heat-health communication campaignsIndividuals interested in health risks and actions to take to stay healthy during extreme heat.This brochure is intended for people physically active.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Extreme Heat Can Impact Our Health in Many Ways
Climate change poses many risks to human health. Some health impacts of climate change are already being felt in the United States. We need to safeguard our communities by protecting people’s health, wellbeing, and quality of life from climate change impacts. Many communities are already taking steps to address these public health ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health Equity
Whether through sea level rise, droughts, or heat waves, the populations most vulnerable to climate-related health impacts are the same communities that experience health inequities, the unjust and avoidable disparities in health outcomes. These include the elderly, children, communities of color, and those unable to afford food, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and the lungs
Hotter temperatures will mean that allergy seasons start earlier and last longer. Some very hot days will produce unpleasant peaks in pollution, especially for anyone with a lung problem. This factsheet aims to help prepare individuals, families and communities for climate change and suggests simple actions to help moderate its worst ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change Makes Me Sick!: Heat
Climate change will increase the frequency and severity of extreme heat events such as heat waves. In the U.S., heat waves are the most dangerous extreme weather event we face; they cause more than 1,300 deaths per year.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Famine
Climate change is already threatening the Earth’s ability to produce food. These effects are expected to worsen as climate change worsens.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Is Your State Prepared For The Health Impacts Of Climate Change?
This winter, a strange sickness has been spreading through the Caribbean. In St. Martin alone, where the disease was first detected in December, there have been over 500 confirmed cases and another 3,200 people are believed to have contracted the disease elsewhere in the Caribbean. The disease, Chikungunya fever, was once only seen ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Opinion: The case for a child-centered energy and climate policy
Children suffer the most from fossil fuel burning.Fossil fuel combustion and associated air pollution and carbon dioxide (CO2) is the root cause of much of children’s ill health children today as well as their uncertain future. There are strong scientific arguments, as well persuasive economic ones, for reducing the world’s ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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How Climate Change Affects Children: AAP Policy Explained
When pediatricians take care of children, we aren’t just thinking about their health and safety now—we are thinking about their health and safety in the future, too.When we talk with parents about healthy diet and exercise, we aren’t just thinking about good growth and energy now, we are thinking about making sure that ...