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Strategies to Protect Health in a Changing Climate
New York State is working in many ways to address climate change and protect New Yorkers. By working on initiatives and programs which collect and analyze data, New York State is assessing impacts of climate change to better understand, improve, and protect our health. Below are links to statewide, regional, and local initiatives ...
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Climate & Health
The Climate-Ready NC program is part of a national public health effort to anticipate and prepare for human health effects related to global and local climate change. Climate-Ready NC is supported by the Climate-Ready States & Cities Initiative of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Climate and Health External ...
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Climate Change in Vermont
In the winter of 2016, Morse Farm Maple Sugar Works tapped its trees on January 31, the earliest day in the East Montpelier farm’s 148-year history. Sugarmaker Tom Morse explained to reporters that the trees were ready about three weeks “too early,” catching he and his fellow sugarmakers across the state off guard. Vermont was ...
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Climate Change, Health, and Populations of Concern
All Americans, at some point in their lives, are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Some people are more affected by climate change than others because of factors like where they live; their age, health, income, and occupation; and how they go about their day-to-day lives. Understanding the threats that climate change poses ...
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Climate Change and Human Health Literature Portal
The Climate Change and Human Health Literature Portal is a knowledge management tool for locating the most relevant scientific literature on the health implications of climate change. It provides access to a database of studies from around the world, published between 2007 and 2014. The National Institute of Environmental Health ...
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Fact Sheets: Climate Change, Health, and Populations of Concern
Understanding the threats that climate change poses to human health can help us work together to lower risks and be prepared. Climate change threatens human health, including mental health, and access to clean air, safe drinking water, nutritious food, and shelter.All Americans, at some point in their lives, are vulnerable to the ...
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Columbia University- Climate Change: Public Health Preparedness and Response
Without substantial changes in emissions rates, climate change from the buildup of greenhouse gases is likely to lead to extensive transformations of U.S. ecosystems and coastlines later this century. The U.S. Department of Defense’s 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review recently determined that climate change will contribute to food ...
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Climate change is real. It’s serious. But we can do something about it!
This website and curriculum was developed by Nancy Villasenor in English and Spanish for health promoters. The curriculum was informed by field testing and surveys of adult Latina learners and research- Villansenor subsequently developed videos, a curriculum, fact sheets, resource lists and more.
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Building Resilient Neighborhoods: Resources
Promoting Preparedness through Community Cohesion. The Building Resilient Neighborhoods Work Group is part of the Physicians for Social Responsibility-Arizona Chapter based in Tucson. The chapter was founded in 1982 as PSR/Southern Arizona with headquarters in Tucson, AZ.
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Local health departments are buidling power for health equity
After years of struggling to close health disparities, a new movement has taken root: local health departments are using a set of strategic practices to confront power imbalances and forms of oppression at the root of health inequities, change the conversation about what created health equity, develop leadership and support ...