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20 Apr 2018 |
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Advancing the Framework for Considering the Effects of Climate Change on Worker Safety and Health
In 2009, a preliminary framework for how climate change could affect worker safety and health was described. That framework was based on a literature search from 1988-2008 that supported seven categories of climate-related occupational hazards: (1) increased ambient temperature; (2) air pollution; (3) ultraviolet exposure; (4) ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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What are the Effects of Climate-Related Risks on Public Health? A summary of National Climate Assessment information from the US Global Change Research Program about the public health risks associated with climate change
What are the Effects of Climate-Related Risks on Public Health? A summary of National Climate Assessment information from the US Global Change Research Program about the public health risks associated with climate change
20 Apr 2018 |
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An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report: Climate Change and Human Health
This document presents the proceedings from the American Thoracic Society Climate Change and Respiratory Health Workshop that was held on May 15, 2010, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The purpose of the one-day meeting was to address the threat to global respiratory health posed by climate change. Domestic and international experts as ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The climate connection: Nurses examine effects of climate change on public health
When Katie Huffling, MS, RN, CNM, worked as nurse midwife in the Washington, D.C., area, she noticed on days with elevated pollution levels that mothers-to-be with previously controlled asthma came into her office wheezing and struggling for breath, putting themselves and the fetuses they were carrying at risk. Huffling adjusted ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change
ASTHO is helping states prepare for the possibility of health effects related to climate change in the same way they prepare for the possibilities of bioterrorism and natural disasters. Recent programs have looked at possible health risks from increased heat, changes in vector-borne disease patterns, and transmission of waterborne ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Nurses, climate change and health
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) concurs with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that climate change has emerged as a new threat to public health. ICN acknowledges climate change as an important issue for the nursing profession, particularly in light of the impact on people’s health and nursing’s shared ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change: bad for our health
In this blog post first published by the Guardian Sustainable Business on 23.04.13, Adam Corner argues that framing climate change as a public health risk may be a way of pushing climate change into the mainstream.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Fact Sheet: Health Educators Climate Commitment
Obama Administration Announces 48 Additional Public Health, Medical, and Nursing Schools from 15 Countries Commit to Train Their Students to Address the Health Impacts of Climate Change, Increasing the Total Number of Schools Committing to 118 Around the World.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Focusing on health in disaster risk management
Traditional views of disaster management were turned on their head by the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction when it was adopted by UN member states on March 18 last year to become a foundation stone of the new 2030 Development Agenda. The agreement adopted at that Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction […]