Climate Change: Mastering the Public Health Role – A Look at the Health Costs of Climate Change and Co-Benefits of Climate Action
- Abstract
This webinar explores the economic cost of health and climate events, and the potential co-benefits of health from acting on climate change. As public health professionals, its important that we tie our work to initiatives in other sectors and highlight the importance of health in these other activities.Dr. Kim Knowlton presents a study done by NRDC on the costs of previous extreme weather events. Dr. Richard J. Jackson – how do we create communities that are reseilient and sustainable?
- Resource Type
- Webinar
- Director
- American Public Health Association (APHA)
- Date
- May 16, 2012
- Series Title
- Climate Change: Mastering the Public Health Role
- Running Time
- 1:00:09
- Organization Type
- Ngo
- Other
- Co-benefits/co-harms Economics/cost analysis