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Taxonomy Archive: public health/health sector response
20 Apr 2018 |
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Local heat stroke prevention plans in Japan: characteristics and elements for public health adaptation to climate change
The adverse health effects from hot weather and heat waves represent significant public health risks in vulnerable areas worldwide. Rising temperatures due to climate change are aggravating these risks in a context of fast urbanization, population growth and societal ageing. However, environmental heat-related health effects are ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Preparing health services for climate change in Australia
Although the implications of climate change for public health continue to be elucidated, we still require much work to guide the development of a comprehensive strategy to underpin the adaptation of the health system. Adaptation will be an evolving process as impacts emerge. The authors aim is to focus on the responses of the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Promoting global population health while constraining the environmental footprint
Populations today face increasing health risks from human-induced regional and global environmental changes and resultant ecological nonsustainability. Localized environmental degradation that has long accompanied population growth, industrialization, and rising consumerism has now acquired a global and often systemic dimension ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The effectiveness of public health interventions to reduce the health impact of climate change: a systematic review of systematic reviews
BACKGROUND: Climate change is likely to be one of the most important threats to public health in the coming years. Yet despite the large number of papers considering the health impact of climate change, few have considered what public health interventions may be of most value in reducing the disease burden. We aimed to evaluate […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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The role of climate variability and change in the transmission dynamics and geographic distribution of dengue
The mounting evidence for anthropogenic changes in global climate raises many pressing questions about the potential effects on biological systems, and in particular the transmission of infectious diseases. Vector-borne diseases, such as dengue, may be particularly sensitive to both periodic fluctuations and sustained changes in ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Public Health Policy: Translating the Science
Public health authorities are required to prepare for future threats and need predictions of the likely impact of climate change on public health risks. They may get overwhelmed by the volume of heterogeneous information in scientific articles and risk relying purely on the public opinion articles which focus mainly on global warming ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health
The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) believes that changes in our climate are occurring worldwide and that nurses have a role in supporting adaptation to and mitigation of climate change through nursing practice, research, administration, education and policy. The most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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10 Things to Know About the New Report on Climate Change and Human Health
This blog post produced by Climate Resolve presents the key takeaways from a report recently developed by the US Global Change Research Program and released by the White House. The report and factsheet present the impacts of climate change on human health in the United States.
20 Apr 2018 |
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A Call to Action: Training Public Health Students to Be Effective Agents for Social Change
In the 21st century, we face enormous public health challenges that differ fundamentally from those of the last century, because these challenges involve widespread societal change and complexity. To address these challenges, public health professionals need to be able to place their work in a larger social context, understand local ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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A Sting Exclusive: “Climate change- the biggest global health threat of the 21st century, yet overlooked in climate negotiations?” IFMSA wonders from COP21 in Paris
Leading medical journal, The Lancet, has named climate change the “biggest global health threat of the 21st century”. All the while this cross cutting issue does not receive much attention. IFMSA has set out on a mission to inform negotiators, press, fellow youth representatives, and everyone else who will listen, how we will ...