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Taxonomy Archive: public health/health sector response
20 Apr 2018 |
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Scientific Consensus on Maintaining Humanity’s Life Support Systems in the 21st Century: Information for Policy Makers
Earth is rapidly approaching a tipping point. Human impacts are causing alarming levels of harm to our planet. As scientists who study the interaction of people with the rest of the biosphere using a wide range of approaches, we agree that the evidence that humans are damaging their ecological life-support systems is overwhelming. We ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change Vulnerability in Contra Costa County: A Focus on Heat
There is widespread scientific consensus that the impacts of climate change on human health are already being observed, and are becoming increasingly significant. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) all recognize climate ...
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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Climate Health, Your Health: Prevention Is Protection
Climate disruption is harmful to your health. Dr. Linda Rudolph and Dr. Barbara Sattler are showing how our success or failure as a civilization may well hinge on how ingenious, nimble and socially just our public health systems can become in restoring the ecosystem health on which all health depends. And doing the right thing […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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JAMA Forum: Communicating the Health Effects of Climate Change
As 2015 draws to a close, on track to be the hottest year ever recorded, global attention to climate change has soared. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), composed of more than 2000 of the world’s leading climate change scientists, has stated with confidence that the major driver of rising ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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AMA Position Statement on Climate Change and Human Health
Human health is ultimately dependent on the health of the planet and its ecosystem. The AMA recognises the latest findings regarding the science of climate change, the role of humans, past observations and future projections. The consequences of climate change have serious direct and indirect, observed and projected health impacts ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Zika: Are outbreaks in U.S. cities avoidable?
When it comes to addressing emerging infectious disease, we have a short attention span. Forces are mobilized when we’ve crossed a tipping point, and demobilized when the immediate threat has passed. In the case of Zika, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency based on a strong association between ...