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20 Apr 2018 |
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Health impact assessment of active transportation: A systematic review
Walking and cycling for transportation (i.e. active transportation, AT), provide substantial health benefits from increased physical activity (PA). However, risks of injury from exposure to motorized traffic and their emissions (i.e. air pollution) exist. The objective was to systematically review studies conducting health impact ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of ambient temperature and diarrhoeal diseases
Global climate change is expected to increase the risk of diarrhoeal diseases, a leading cause of childhood mortality. However, there is considerable uncertainty about the magnitude of these effects and which populations bear the greatest risks. Changes in temperature due to global climate change can and may already be affecting ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Heat, Human Performance, and Occupational Health: A Key Issue for the Assessment of Global Climate Change Impacts
Ambient heat exposure is a well-known health hazard, which reduces human performance and work capacity at heat levels already common in tropical and subtropical areas. Various health problems have been reported. Increasing heat exposure during the hottest seasons of each year is a key feature of global climate change. Heat exhaustion ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Assessing the direct occupational and public health impacts of solar radiation management with stratospheric aerosols
Geoengineering is the deliberate large-scale manipulation of environmental processes that affects the Earth’s climate, in an attempt to counteract the effects of climate change. Injecting sulfate aerosol precursors and designed nanoparticles into the stratosphere to (i.e., solar radiation management [SRM]), has been suggested as ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Documenting the Human Health Impacts of Climate Change in Tropical and Subtropical Regions
Climate change is harming human health, and the magnitude of the harm is increasing. This is especially true in tropical and subtropical regions that are vulnerable to greater intensity, frequency, and duration of extreme weather, such as hurricanes, drought, and increases in heat, as a result of climate change. Nearly all countries ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The physician’s response to climate change
Climate change will have an effect on the health and well-being of the populations cared for by practicing physicians. The anticipated medical effects include heat- and cold-related deaths, cardiovascular illnesses, injuries and mental harms from extreme weather events, respiratory illnesses caused by poor air quality, infectious ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Views of AAAAI members on climate change and health
American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology members are witnessing medical problems caused by climate change among their patients. They support physician leadership on environmental sustainability, advocacy by physicians and their associations, and education for themselves, their patients, the public, and undergraduate ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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A survey of African American physicians on the health effects of climate change
The U.S. National Climate Assessment concluded that climate change is harming the health of many Americans and identified people in some communities of color as particularly vulnerable to these effects. In Spring 2014, we surveyed members of the National Medical Association, a society of African American physicians who care for a ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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American Thoracic Society and Marron Institute Report Estimated Excess Morbidity and Mortality Caused by Air Pollution above American Thoracic Society–Recommended Standards, 2011–2013
Estimates of the health impacts of air pollution are needed to make informed air quality management decisions at both the national and local levels. Using design values of ambient pollution concentrations from 2011–2013 as a baseline, the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and the Marron Institute of Urban Management estimated excess ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate influence on Vibrio and associated human diseases during the past half-century in the coastal North Atlantic
Long-term ecological and paleontological data analyses indicate climate change is having an impact on marine eukaryotic communities. However, little is known about effects of global warming on marine prokaryotes, which are, by far, the largest living biomass in world oceans. Here, we report, for the first time to our knowledge, that ...