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20 Apr 2018 |
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The Impact of Climate Change on Health and Equity
Tackling the daunting health effects of climate change requires community leaders from all sectors to work together to meet the needs of everyone, especially the most vulnerable.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Protecting Patients From Climate Change One Nurse At A Time
Created by two graduate students, the award-winning Nurses for Cool and Healthy Homes program trains nurses on how to work with vulnerable communities to address extreme heat and the health impacts of climate change.
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Perfect Storm: Climate Change and Zika Virus Disease
If you were writing a popular novel designed to terrify, you could hardly come up with a better plot device than introducing Zika virus disease. A perfect storm of a vector-borne disease, its kaleidoscopic facets are staggering in number and touch on a multitude of aspects—lack of sanitation and rampant urbanization, reproductive ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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What now, after the Supreme Court stay? Moving forward with the Clean Power Plan
As you probably know, the Clean Power Plan (CPP) faces a serious legal challenge. Twenty-nine state attorneys general and state agencies sued the EPA in 2015, claiming that EPA exceeded its authority in drafting some aspects of the CPP. The Supreme Court in February 2016 issued a “stay,” or a temporary suspension, of the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Action is Health Action: Why Support for California Climate Legislation is Good for Our Health
Linda Rudolph, MD, MPH, director of PHI’s Center for Climate Change and Health, recently testified before the California State Assembly on SB 350, one of the key bills moving through the legislature, and serves as a national spokesperson to raise awareness of the connections between climate change and health. We sat down with Linda ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Breathing Life into Paris Agreement: Health Can Drive Action
“The world will not end poverty or hunger, or meet the health targets, without addressing climate change. And it will not solve the climate problem without addressing energy, and air pollution,” said UNFCCC Deputy Executive Secretary Richard Kinley at the Second Global Conference on Health and Climate. The Conference was held ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Is there anything worse for our health than fossil fuels?
Do health organisations have a moral duty to pull their money out of fossil fuels? The recently published Unhealthy Investments report argues that they do.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Zika Goes Viral in the U.S.
A new analysis by Climate Central highlights that the number of days hot and humid enough for mosquitoes to be active and biting has increased in many big US cities—and climate change will further increase those numbers, in most locations. In their analysis, the ten cities with the biggest increase in the length of the […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Zika: Are outbreaks in U.S. cities avoidable?
When it comes to addressing emerging infectious disease, we have a short attention span. Forces are mobilized when we’ve crossed a tipping point, and demobilized when the immediate threat has passed. In the case of Zika, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency based on a strong association between ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Harzard Zone: The Impact of Climate Change on Occupational Health
Global climate change has the potential to affect human health in two significant ways: by changing the severity and frequency of health issues already affected by climate factors, and by creating unprecedented health threats in places where they have not previously occurred. Studies show that global warming will likely amplify ...