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Taxonomy Archive: public health/health sector response
20 Apr 2018 |
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American Nurses Association- Michigan Resolution on Global Climate Change
The American Nurses Association 2008 House of Delegates recognized and publicly acknowledged that the challenges we face as a result of global climate change are unprecedented in human history and it is critical that nurses speak out in a united voice and advocate for change on both individual and policy levels.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health- General Slide Deck
This presentation created by the Center for Climate Change and Health, PHI, with funding from the Kaiser Foundation and the Kresge Foundation provides a general presentation on climate change and health for use with health professionals and other audiences.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Advocating for Health in a Warming World: A Health Advocate’s Perspective
Health advocacy is an exercise in compassion, driven by concerns for all people, a concern that is as essential in the policy debates as health science, if we are serious about addressing climate change. Martin Luther King famously said, ‘‘The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.’’19 But the problem ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate-Smart Healthcare: Low-Carbon and Resilience Strategies for the Health Sector
Climate mitigation, adaptation, and low-carbon and resilient health development strategies reduce emissions, build healthcare climate resilience, and provide significant health and economic co-benefits. Climate-smart healthcare will strengthen health sectors and communities by ensuring access to clean and independent energy, safe ...
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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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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Climate and Energy in the Health Care Sector: An Interview with Bill Ravanesi
The health care industry has the power to appreciably move the needle on climate and energy progress. Leaders in the sector are harnessing that power, to the benefit of their communities and the world as a whole.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Doctors must respond to changes in the politics of climate change
We call on medical professionals to redouble their efforts to keep the health effects of climate change front and center in the national debate over budgeting priorities. Members of the climate science community, as well as growing numbers of state and local governments and major corporations, have begun resisting the Trump ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change: Direct and indirect impacts on health
Part of a series featuring medical students and health professionals’ writing and work on climate change and health.