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20 Apr 2018 |
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How well does climate change and human health research match the demands of policymakers? A scoping review
BACKGROUND: In 2008, the World Health Organization (WHO) Member States passed a World Health Assembly resolution that identified the following five priority areas for research and pilot projects on climate change and human health: health vulnerability, health protection, health impacts of mitigation and adaptation policies, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Interactions between HIV/AIDS and the environment: toward a syndemic framework
Although the social, economic, and political dimensions of the HIV/AIDS epidemic have been studied in considerable depth, the relationship between HIV/AIDS and its environmental causes and consequences remains largely unexplored. We reviewed the evidence of interactions between ecosystem health and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. We ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Indicators linking health and sustainability in the post-2015 development agenda
The UN-led discussion about the post-2015 sustainable development agenda provides an opportunity to develop indicators and targets that show the importance of health as a precondition for and an outcome of policies to promote sustainable development. Health as a precondition for development has received considerable attention in ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Insights from past millennia into climatic impacts on human health and survival
Climate change poses threats to human health, safety, and survival via weather extremes and climatic impacts on food yields, fresh water, infectious diseases, conflict, and displacement. Paradoxically, these risks to health are neither widely nor fully recognized. Historical experiences of diverse societies experiencing climatic ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health risks, present and future, from global climate change
There is now no serious scientific debate: human actions are changing the world’s climate, and are set to do so at an increasing rate in coming decades. Urgent action is now required to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (the dominant long acting greenhouse gas), if global temperature rises are not to exceed 2°C—the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Fossil fuel companies and climate change: the case for divestment
Climate change is likely to have a negative effect on human health through diverse pathways, including extreme weather events and heat waves, the spread of disease vectors to previously temperate climates, and disruption of the water cycle causing drought, famine, conflict, and mass migration. To prevent this we need to rapidly ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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A systematic review of the physical health impacts from non-occupational exposure to wildfire smoke
BACKGROUND: Climate change is likely to increase the threat of wildfires, and little is known about how wildfires affect health in exposed communities. A better understanding of the impacts of the resulting air pollution has important public health implications for the present day and the future.METHOD: We performed a systematic ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Nuestro Futuro: Climate Change and U.S. Latinos
(In both English and Spanish) This report examines the unique challenges facing U.S. Latinos, as well as the tremendous opportunities available if we take climate action. Solutions like ramping up wind and solar energy and increased energy efficiency will help to create well-paid jobs, save money by cutting electric bills, and help ...