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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 Justice in Rural Southeastern United States: A review of Climate Change Impacts and Effects on Human Health
Climate justice is a local, national, and global movement to protect at-risk populations who are disproportionately affected by climate change. The social context for this review is the Southeastern region of the United States, which is particularly susceptible to climate change because of the geography of the area and the ...
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 ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Impact of Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) Exposure During Wildfires on Cardiovascular Health Outcomes
BACKGROUND: Epidemiological studies investigating the role of fine particulate matter (PM2.5; aerodynamic diameter
20 Apr 2018 |
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Advancing climate justice and the right to health through procedural rights
Scholars have increasingly recognized the ways in which climate change threatens the human rights of people around the world, with a disproportionate burden on the rights of already vulnerable persons. At particular risk to these populations is the right to health, as well as to interconnected human rights. Yet, scholars have ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Vulnerability to extreme heat and climate change: is ethnicity a factor?
Background With a warming climate, it is important to identify sub-populations at risk of harm during extreme heat. Several international studies have reported that individuals from ethnic minorities are at increased risk of heat-related illness, for reasons that are not often discussed.Objective The aim of this article is to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate hotspots: key vulnerable regions, climate change and limits to warming
Defining and operationalizing Article 2 of the UNFCCC remains a challenge. The question of what is dangerous climate change is not a purely scientific one, as danger necessarily has a subjective dimension and its definition requires judgment and precaution. The papers in this special issue of Regional Environmental Change attempt to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Neighborhood Effects on Heat Deaths: Social and Environmental Predictors of Vulnerability in Maricopa County, Arizona
Background: Most heat-related deaths occur in cities, and future trends in global climate change and urbanization may amplify this trend. Understanding how neighborhoods affect heat mortality fills an important gap between studies of individual susceptibility to heat and broadly comparative studies of temperature–mortality ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Nature and Health
Urbanization, resource exploitation, and lifestyle changes have diminished possibilities for human contact with nature in many societies. Concern about the loss has helped motivate research on the health benefits of contact with nature. Reviewing that research here, we focus on nature as represented by aspects of the physical ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Why sustainable population growth is a key to climate change and public health equity
Australia’s population could reach 42 million by 2050. This rapid population growth, if unabated, will have significant social, public health and environmental implications. On the one hand, it is a major driver of climate change and environmental degradation; on the other it is likely to be a major contributor to growing ...