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20 Apr 2018 |
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Prioritizing health: a human rights analysis of disaster, vulnerability, and urbanization in New Orleans and Port-au-Prince
Climate change prompts increased urbanization and vulnerability to natural hazards. Urbanization processes are relevant to a right to health analysis of natural hazards because they can exacerbate pre-disaster inequalities that create vulnerability. The 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince and the 2005 hurricane in New Orleans provide ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Social justice, climate change, and dengue
Climate change should be viewed fundamentally as an issue of global justice. Understanding the complex interplay of climatic and socioeconomic trends is imperative to protect human health and lessen the burden of diseases such as dengue fever. Dengue fever is rapidly expanding globally. Temperature, rainfall, and frequency of natural ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Head-off Environmental Asthma in Louisiana (HEAL) Study—Methods and Study Population
Background: In the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, and surrounding parishes (NOLA), children with asthma were perilously impacted by Hurricane Katrina as a result of disrupted health care, high home mold and allergen levels, and high stress.Objectives: The Head-off Environmental Asthma in Louisiana (HEAL) study was conducted to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Environmental attitudes and political partisanship
OBJECTIVE: To explore the impact of political partisanship on environmental attitudes related to climate change in United States and its implications for public health. STUDY DESIGN: An integrative literature review. METHODS: A literature review of English articles was performed from January 2013 to March 2013 using the following ...
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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The geographic distribution and economic value of climate change-related ozone health impacts in the United States in 2030
In this United States-focused analysis we use outputs from two general circulation models (GCMs) driven by different greenhouse gas forcing scenarios as inputs to regional climate and chemical transport models to investigate potential changes in near-term U.S. air quality due to climate change. We conduct multiyear simulations to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change, children’s rights, and the pursuit of intergenerational climate justice
Frequently forgotten in the global discussions and agreements on climate change are children and young people, who both disproportionately suffer the consequences of a rapidly changing climate, yet also offer innovative solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (climate change mitigation) and adapt to climate change. Existing ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The epidemiology of occupational heat exposure in the United States: a review of the literature and assessment of research needs in a changing climate
In recent years, the United States has experienced record-breaking summer heat. Climate change models forecast increasing US temperatures and more frequent heat wave events in the coming years. Exposure to environmental heat is a significant, but overlooked, workplace hazard that has not been well-characterized or studied. The ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Characterizing occupational heat-related mortality in the United States, 2000-2010: An analysis using the census of fatal occupational injuries database: Occupational Heat-Related Mortality in the US
Background: Occupational heat-related mortality is not well studied and risk factors remain largely unknown. This paper describes the epidemiological characteristics of heat-related deaths among workers in the US 2000-2010. Methods: Fatality data were obtained at the Bureau of Labor Statistics from the confidential on-site Census of ...
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 ...