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20 Apr 2018 |
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The perfect storm: climate change and its health consequences
March 30 saw the launch of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change—a coalition of major UK health institutions and The Lancet, who have come together to raise awareness in the UK of the health risks posed by climate change. We are united by a shared understanding that climate change threatens the wellbeing of the […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Reducing vulnerability to climate change in sub-Saharan Africa: the need for better evidence
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has contributed the least of any world region to the global accumulation of greenhouse gas emissions; however, this region will probably be more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change than any other [1]. Less than 7% of the world’s total emissions of greenhouse gases emanate from the African ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Food and nutrition security in the Australia-New Zealand region: impact of climate change
Food and nutrition security in the Australia-New Zealand region: impact of climate change
20 Apr 2018 |
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New climate and socio-economic scenarios for assessing global human health challenges due to heat risk
Motivated by growing heat-related morbidity and mortality in a warming climate, this paper assesses global heat health risk in order to understand the challenges to sustainability in the 21st century, using four Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) of the HadGEM2-ES climate model and five Shared Socio-Economic Pathways ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and health research in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Anthropologically induced climate change, caused by an increased concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, is an emerging threat to human health. Consequences of climate change may affect the prevalence of various diseases and environmental and social maladies that affect population health. In this article, we reviewed the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Vulnerability to extreme heat and climate change: is ethnicity a factor?
Background With a warming climate, it is important to identify sub-populations at risk of harm during extreme heat. Several international studies have reported that individuals from ethnic minorities are at increased risk of heat-related illness, for reasons that are not often discussed.Objective The aim of this article is to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate hotspots: key vulnerable regions, climate change and limits to warming
Defining and operationalizing Article 2 of the UNFCCC remains a challenge. The question of what is dangerous climate change is not a purely scientific one, as danger necessarily has a subjective dimension and its definition requires judgment and precaution. The papers in this special issue of Regional Environmental Change attempt to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Why sustainable population growth is a key to climate change and public health equity
Australia’s population could reach 42 million by 2050. This rapid population growth, if unabated, will have significant social, public health and environmental implications. On the one hand, it is a major driver of climate change and environmental degradation; on the other it is likely to be a major contributor to growing ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The importance of health co-benefits in macroeconomic assessments of UK Greenhouse Gas emission reduction strategies
We employ a single-country dynamically-recursive Computable General Equilibrium model to make health-focussed macroeconomic assessments of three contingent UK Greenhouse Gas (GHG) mitigation strategies, designed to achieve 2030 emission targets as suggested by the UK Committee on Climate Change. In contrast to previous assessment ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Implications of climate change for skin cancer prevention in Australia
It is estimated that nearly 450,000 Australians get skin cancer every year. Ultraviolet (UV) radiation from sunlight has been identified as the cause of more than 95% of skin cancers in Australia. Accordingly, the focus of skin cancer prevention programs is reducing exposure to UV radiation. In Victoria, improvements in sun ...