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20 Apr 2018 |
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Are we ready? Preparing for the public health challenges of climate change.
A report on the results of a survey of a representative sample of local health departments from around the county, about their perception of climate-related health risks and the status and adequacy of their departments’ programmtic activities in response to these risks.This report points to critical gaps in resources, programs, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Capacity to Address the Health Impacts of Climate Change In Massachusetts: Findings from a Statewide Survey of Local Health Departments
The purpose of this report is to summarize results of a comprehensive survey aimed at assessing the capacity of local health departments in Massachusetts to respond to the public health impacts associated with climate change, including health officials’ perception of climate change, and to develop plans for reducing these ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and California’s local public health agencies
This paper presents the results from a survey of local Health Officers. The intent of the survey was to learn more about perceptions of the public health threat from, and preparation for, climate change among California’s local public health agencies. The survey found that local public health officials believe that climate change ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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An approach to developing local climate change environmental public health indicators, vulnerability assessments, and projections of future impacts
Environmental public health indicators (EPHIs) are used by local, state, and federal health agencies to track the status of environmental hazards; exposure to those hazards; health effects of exposure; and public health interventions designed to reduce or prevent the hazard, exposure, or resulting health effect. Climate and health ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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A review of frameworks for developing environmental health indicators for climate change and health
The role climate change may play in altering human health, particularly in the emergence and spread of diseases, is an evolving area of research. It is important to understand this relationship because it will compound the already significant burden of diseases on national economies and public health. Authorities need to be able to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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A review of national-level adaptation planning with regards to the risks posed by climate change on infectious diseases in 14 OECD nations
Climate change is likely to have significant implications for human health, particularly through alterations of the incidence, prevalence, and distribution of infectious diseases. In the context of these risks, governments in high income nations have begun developing strategies to reduce potential climate change impacts and increase ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Assessing Health Vulnerability to Climate Change: A guide for health departments
This document provides guidance for health departments on how to assess local vulnerabilities to health hazards associated with climate change. This assessment of people and place vulnerability can then be used to implement targeted public health interventions to reduce the burden of public health impacts.3 Introduction This document ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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WHO guidance to protect health from climate change through health adaptation planning
Created under the global UNFCCC climate change agenda, the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process builds on the National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPA) process that was designed to support least-developed countries (LDCs) to identify priority actions to respond to their urgent and immediate adaptation needs. The NAP process ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Public Health Preparation Plan: An assessment of public health impacts of climate change and actions to protect our health.
This public health plan is a part of broader ongoing efforts by the City of Portland and Multnomah County to make our infrastructure, our natural environment, and our society more resilient to climate change. This plan communicates why we as a community, as policymakers and as public health professionals should care about climate ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change: challenges and opportunities for global health
IMPORTANCE: Health is inextricably linked to climate change. It is important for clinicians to understand this relationship in order to discuss associated health risks with their patients and to inform public policy. OBJECTIVES: To provide new US-based temperature projections from downscaled climate modeling and to review recent ...