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20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change: What’s Public Health Got to Do With It?
This is the first in a series of five guides designed to help public health professionals understand how they can and should be involved in mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and the lungs
Hotter temperatures will mean that allergy seasons start earlier and last longer. Some very hot days will produce unpleasant peaks in pollution, especially for anyone with a lung problem. This factsheet aims to help prepare individuals, families and communities for climate change and suggests simple actions to help moderate its worst ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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More Needs to be Done to Prioritize Climate Change
Climate change is a critical public health issue — one that hospitals need to do more to address. Every year, U.S. hospitals are emitting 8 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gases, generating more than 5.9 million tons of waste annually, and spending more than $6.5 billion on energy costs. While many hospitals are beginning to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Medical Community Warns Climate Change Is an Imminent Public Health Threat
An international alliance of doctors, nurses and other health professionals concerned about the impacts of climate change is urging governments to reach a strong agreement at the ongoing United Nations’ climate negotiations in Paris.Declarations of a global medical consensus on climate change signed by 1,700 health ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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CDC Grand Rounds: Climate Change and Health – From Science to Practice
Changes occurring in the world’s climate pose significant threats to human health and wellbeing and will have even greater impacts in the future. These threats are wide-ranging, including decreased air quality and increases in extreme weather events, wildfire, and illnesses transmitted by water, and disease-carriers, such as ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Offline: Climate—“a common concern of humankind”
Scientists reacted to last weekend’s Paris Agreement on climate change with restrained optimism. The goal set out in the final document was strikingly clear—“holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Nurses’ perceptions of climate and environmental issues: a qualitative study
AIM: The aim of this study was to explore nurses’ perceptions of climate and environmental issues and examine how nurses perceive their role in contributing to the process of sustainable development. BACKGROUND: Climate change and its implications for human health represent an increasingly important issue for the healthcare ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Preparing for Climate Change: A Perspective from Local Public Health Officers in California
Background: The most recent scientific findings show that even with significant emission reductions, some amount of climate change is likely inevitable. The magnitude of the climate changes will depend on future emissions and climate sensitivity. These changes will have local impacts, and a significant share of coping with these ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Head-off Environmental Asthma in Louisiana (HEAL) Study—Methods and Study Population
Background: In the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, and surrounding parishes (NOLA), children with asthma were perilously impacted by Hurricane Katrina as a result of disrupted health care, high home mold and allergen levels, and high stress.Objectives: The Head-off Environmental Asthma in Louisiana (HEAL) study was conducted to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Association of Improved Air Quality with Lung Development in Children
Air-pollution levels have been trending downward progressively over the past several decades in southern California, as a result of the implementation of air quality–control policies. We assessed whether long-term reductions in pollution were associated with improvements in respiratory health among children.