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Taxonomy Archive: public health/health sector response
20 Apr 2018 |
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An introduction to ‘Eco-Medical Literacy’ and its importance in shaping expert medical professionals
Part of a series featuring medical students and health professionals’ writing and work on climate change and health.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change: a challenge yet to be tackled in medical schools
Part of a series featuring medical students and health professionals’ writing and work on climate change and health.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Why medicine is relevant to the battle against climate change
Part of a series featuring medical students and health professionals’ writing and work on climate change and health.
20 Apr 2018 |
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A silent killer: the impact of a changing climate on health
Part of a series featuring medical students and health professionals’ writing and work on climate change and health.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Protecting the Health and Well-Being of Communities in a Changing Climate: Proceedings of a Workshop
On March 13, 2017, the Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine and the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement jointly convened a 1-day public workshop, Protecting the Health and Well-being of Communities in a Changing Climate in Washington, DC. The workshop was intended to exploring the implications ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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How the Public Health Community is Leading on Climate Change: The American Public Health Association has divested from fossil fuels and named the 2017 “Year of Climate Change”
When the internationsl climate negotiation COP23 opened on November 6, the U.S. delegation was sidelined for the first time in international climate negotiations. Following the Trump Administration’s decision to pull out of the Paris Accord and its refusal to fund an official U.S. pavilion at the meeting, state and local ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change is Affecting Our Health. Is There a Cure? | Jonathan Patz | TEDxOshkosh
Public Health is being impacted by climate change via many pathways – from alterations in infectious disease transmission to water-source compromise, malnutrition, air pollution, and other factors. This talk includes recent analyses that show how mitigating global warming provides extensive health opportunities, as well as ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Tampa Declaration on Climate and Health
At the Climate and Health Equity Symposium sponsored by the W. Montague Cobb/NMA Health Institute, National Medical Association, the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, and Physicians for Social Responsibility – Florida, on January 27, 2018 in Wesley Chapel, Florida, members of health professional organizations, ...