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Taxonomy Archive: behavior change
20 Apr 2018 |
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Mental Health and Our Changing Climate: Impacts, Implications, and Guidance
When you think about climate change, mental health might not be the first thing that comes to mind. Americans are beginning to grow familiar with climate change and its health impacts: worsening asthma and allergies; heat-related stress; foodborne, waterborne, and vector-borne diseases; illness and injury related to storms; and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Protecting the Health and Wellbeing of Communities in a Changing Climate: A Workshop
Workshop on communities working to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
20 Apr 2018 |
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Unmasking Our Cities From Air Pollution Will Require Local, State, and Federal Climate Solutions
The Unmask My City campaign launched on May 2nd—World Asthma Day—in ten cities around the world. A partnership of the Global Climate and Health Alliance, the US Climate and Health Alliance, Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment and many others, the campaign uses LED-equipped face masks that allow people to see whether the air ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Deadly Impact of Airborne Particles
The link between air pollution and death was established in a series of disasters around the world. About 15% of all deaths in the world are from ischemic heart disease; that’s when your heart literally suffocates. As the levels of air pollution increase, the percent of deaths from heart disease rises sharply – even at […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Second Global Conference on Health & Climate: “Building Healthier Societies Through Implementation of the Paris Agreement” Conference Conclusions and Action Agenda
This document includes conclusions and an action agenda resulting from the conference. The conference responded to the commitments of Parties to the UNFCCC to protect and promote health, and their requests through the World Health Assembly and WHO Executive Board, to renew and reinforce the engagement of the health community to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Assessing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Health Co-Benefits: A Structured Review of Lifestyle-Related Climate Change Mitigation Strategies
This is the first structured review to identify and summarize research on lifestyle choices that improve health and have the greatest potential to mitigate climate change. Two literature searches were conducted on: (1) active transport health co-benefits, and (2) dietary health co-benefits.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and chronic disease: twin perils and a golden opportunity to solve both
As incomes rise in developing countries, their citizens buy more cars and eat more meat. Chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease are rising globally in parallel. This link provides even more golden opportunities for public health. The value of health dividends outweighs the costs of striving for an energy efficient, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Overview of the Mental Health and Psychosocial Impacts of Climate Change
Slides and notes from Dr. Lise Van Susteren’s presentation during the “Building Mental Wellness and Psychosocial Resilience for Climate Change” workshop hosted on June 12, 2017. All the physical impacts of climate change– those affecting us both directly or indirectly –all the losses, injuries, illnesses, displacements – ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Unmask My City: Because everyone deserves clean air and a stable climate
Through Unmask My City, health organizations and health professionals in participating cities are pushing for solutions such as congestion charging to reduce car and truck traffic in cities; increased support for active transportation and cleaner-energy public transit; phasing out construction of new coal power plants; and monitoring ...