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20 Apr 2018 |
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Preparing for Climate Change: A Perspective from Local Public Health Officers in California
Background: The most recent scientific findings show that even with significant emission reductions, some amount of climate change is likely inevitable. The magnitude of the climate changes will depend on future emissions and climate sensitivity. These changes will have local impacts, and a significant share of coping with these ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Adaptation to Impacts of Climate Change on Aeroallergens and Allergic Respiratory Diseases
Climate change has the potential to have many significant impacts on aeroallergens such as pollen and mould spores, and therefore related diseases such as asthma and allergic rhinitis. This paper critically reviews this topic, with a focus on the potential adaptation measures that have been identified to date. These are aeroallergen ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Lungs in a Warming World: Climate Change and Respiratory Health
Climate change is a health threat no less consequential than cigarette smoking. Increased concentrations of greenhouse gases, and especially CO 2, in the earth’s atmosphere have already warmed the planet substantially, causing more severe and prolonged heat waves, temperature variability, air pollution, forest fires, droughts, and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Anthropogenic Climate Change and Allergic Diseases
Climate change is expected to have an impact on various aspects of health, including mucosal areas involved in allergic inflammatory disorders that include asthma, allergic rhinitis, allergic conjunctivitis and anaphylaxis. The evidence that links climate change to the exacerbation and the development of allergic disease is ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change, conflict, and health
Future climate change is predicted to diminish essential natural resource availability in many regions and perhaps globally. The resulting scarcity of water, food and livelihoods could lead to increasingly desperate populations that challenge governments, enhancing the risk of intra- and interstate conflict. Defence establishments ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Energy Burden and Environmental Impact of Health Services
Objectives. We reviewed the English-language literature on the energy burden and environmental impact of health services., Methods. We searched all years of the PubMed, CINAHL, and ScienceDirect databases for publications reporting energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, or the environmental impact of health-related activities. ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health and climate benefits of different energy-efficiency and renewable energy choices
Energy efficiency (EE) and renewable energy (RE) can benefit public health and the climate by displacing emissions from fossil-fuelled electrical generating units (EGUs). Benefits can vary substantially by EE/RE installation type and location, due to differing electricity generation or savings by location, characteristics of the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Air pollution and early deaths in the United States. Part I: Quantifying the impact of major sectors in 2005
Highlights •Ozone and PM impacts of the major combustion sectors in the U.S. are modeled. •Early deaths attributable to each sector are estimated. •∼200,000 early deaths occur in the U.S. each year due to U.S. combustion emissions. •The leading causes are road transportation and power generation. Abstract: Combustion ...
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 ...