Archive
Taxonomy Archive: public health/health sector response
20 Apr 2018 |
 |
 |
Heat Alert and Response Systems to Protect Health: Best Practices Guidebook
Extreme heat poses growing risks to the health of Canadians. Public health and emergency management officials in several Canadian communities are developing interventions to reduce heat-health risks and to prepare for the expected increase in the frequency, duration and severity of extreme heat events due to climate change. To help ...
20 Apr 2018 |
|
|
Global Health Professionals Call for Transition Away from Coal
On behalf of health professionals around the world, we call on the G7 nations to accelerate the global transition away from coalfired electricity. Eliminating air pollution from coalfired power plants provides immediate and significant air pollutionrelated health benefits and health care savings. A coal phaseout also slows ...
20 Apr 2018 |
|
|
Hawaii Report on Climate Change and Health
Hawaiʻi has addressed climate change on its State policy agenda for several years via initiatives such as Hawai’i State Green Growth (HGG) and Aloha Plus Challenge Initiative, the Hawai’i Climate Adaption Initiative Act (Act 83), and Act 286, HRS 226- 109. The increasing global, national and regional scientific evidence relating ...
20 Apr 2018 |
|
|
Webzine Video on Health and Climate
Climate change is above all a question of public health. Doctors are in the front-line in responding to the harm from climate turmoil. We have a privileged position and a moral duty to protect and promote the population’s health.
20 Apr 2018 |
|
|
Opinion: Health institutions should lead on green stewardship
Hospitals, nursing homes and clinics have been making incremental improvements in their environmental record since the oil crisis of the 70s and should be commended for their efforts. But today, it’s simply not enough. After all, health, the environment and health care are inextricably linked. There is growing evidence of the link ...
20 Apr 2018 |
|
|
The Health Practitioner’s Guide to Climate Change: Diagnosis and Cure
There are enormous health benefits from tackling climate change. This is the first book to set out what health practitioners can do to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, to make health services sustainable, and to design healthy, sustainable communities.
20 Apr 2018 |
|
|
Climate Change: A Serious Threat to Public Health – Key Findings from ASTHO’s 2009 Climate Change Needs Assessment
Main messages from a survey administered by ASTHO in 2009, regarding current climate change practices, perceptions, and resource needs of state and territorial health agencies.
20 Apr 2018 |
|
|
Climate Change: Endangering Human Health and Well Being
Image of health impacts, discusses vulnerable populations, regional impacts, and possible respones for public health sector.
20 Apr 2018 |
|
|
Getting Involved in Climate Change Action Planning
Public health employees have an important role to play in shaping policies and plans designed to address climate change. As experts on the health of our communities and on the needs of vulnerable communities, public health staff can ensure that these needs are addressed while we prepare to adapt to a changing climate. Policy work ...
20 Apr 2018 |
|
|
How Public Health can Address Climate Change
Greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are increasing the earth’s temperature, resulting in extreme weather events that have serious health consequences. Vulnerable communities will likely have some of the greatest exposures to climate‐related health impacts and the fewest resources to confront them. This is a public health ...