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20 Apr 2018 |
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Identifying the public health benefits of livestock-dependent, agro-ecosystems under climate change
As the demand for meat continues to grow in South Asia and Africa and access to communal sources of water and forage shrinks, intensification of small-scale livestock systems in peri-urban areas is expected to expand. In South East Asia, smallholder transition to livestock intensification has been transformative, increasing economic ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Exposure to multiple metals from groundwater-a global crisis: geology, climate change, health effects, testing, and mitigation
This paper presents an overview of the global extent of naturally occurring toxic metals in groundwater. Adverse health effects attributed to the toxic metals most commonly found in groundwater are reviewed, as well as chemical, biochemical, and physiological interactions between these metals. Synergistic and antagonistic effects ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The challenge of health & environment: profiling risks & strategic priorities for now & the future
A substantial burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases in the developing countries is attributable to environmental risk factors. WHO estimates that the environmental factors are responsible for an estimated 24 per cent of the global burden of disease in terms of healthy life years lost and 23 per cent of all deaths; ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Minimization of heatwave morbidity and mortality
Global climate change is projected to increase the frequency and duration of periods of extremely high temperatures. Both the general populace and public health authorities often underestimate the impact of high temperatures on human health. To highlight the vulnerable populations and illustrate approaches to minimization of health ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Public Health Policy: Translating the Science
Public health authorities are required to prepare for future threats and need predictions of the likely impact of climate change on public health risks. They may get overwhelmed by the volume of heterogeneous information in scientific articles and risk relying purely on the public opinion articles which focus mainly on global warming ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change: what needs to be done
Finding the necessary political will to act is the biggest challenge facing climate policy, says Tom BurkeIf we are to meet the challenge of generating political will, the climate conversation must involve everyone, from all professions and all walks of life. Political will is built into the base of society; it is not something that ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Contraction and convergence: the best possible solution to the twin problems of climate change and inequity
Much is now known about anthropogenically induced climate change, its impacts on the planet’s species, and the need for urgent action to avoid catastrophe.1 2 The unequal distribution of resources between the materially rich and the materially poor amplifies the multiple adverse effects of climate change, so disrupting ecosystems, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Equity
Climate One presents a podcast in which three speakers discuss vulnerable populations, specifically communitites of color, and the impacts of climate change.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health and Climate Film
The MN Climate & Health Program, in partnership with the MN Environmental Public Health Tracking Program and tpt MN, produced the film: Health and Climate, which highlights some of the climate changes Minnesota has been experiencing and the subsequent public health impacts.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Alaska’s terrifying wildfire season and what it says about climate change
The fires are just the latest indicator of a climatic transformation that is remaking the state — its forests, its coasts, its glaciers, and perhaps most of all, the frozen ground beneath — more than any other in America.