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Taxonomy Archive: Factsheet/pamphlet
20 Apr 2018 |
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Hydraulic Fracturing and Your Health: Water Contamination
Fracking operations consume and contaminate enormous quantities of water. In order to fracture a single well site, natural gas companies typically use over 4 million gallons of water. This amount of water is equivalent to what 11,000 American families use in a day. Such intensive water use has become an issue in states such as […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change & Health Equity: Issue Brief
Climate change threatens the health and well-being of California’s diverse population of nearly 38 million people and poses immense challenges for achieving health equity. While all Californians are impacted by climate change, the populations most vulnerable to the health impacts of climate change are the same communities that ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Hojas informativas: El cambio climatico, la salud y las poblaciones que nos preocupan
El entender las amenazas que el cambio climático representa para la salud humana nos puede ayudar a trabajar juntos para aminorar los riesgos y estar preparados. El cambio climático amenaza la salud humana, inclusive la salud mental, así como el acceso al aire limpio, el agua potable segura, la alimentación nutritiva y el ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health Talking Points
American College of Physicians (ACP) presents a series of climate change and talking points for physicians in this brief document.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Fact Sheets: Climate Change, Health, and Populations of Concern
Understanding the threats that climate change poses to human health can help us work together to lower risks and be prepared. Climate change threatens human health, including mental health, and access to clean air, safe drinking water, nutritious food, and shelter.All Americans, at some point in their lives, are vulnerable to the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Building Your Advocacy Toobox: Advocacy vs. Lobbying
Advocacy is a central tenet of public health. Without advocacy, we wouldn’t have seatbelt laws, safe drinking water, and nutrition labeling. It is vital in advancing public health to keep our communities healthy and safe. If public health stakeholders don’t speak up and advocate for important public health issues, opposing sides ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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How Climate Change Affects Asthma- and what you can do about it
Climate change is causing more wildfires and more extreme storms. It is also harming our health. Climate change is a major threat to the health of people with asthma.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Cómo el cambio climático afecta al asma- y qué es lo que puede hacer al respecto
El cambio climático está causando más incendios forestales y más tormentas extremas. También está dañando nuestra salud. El cambio climático es una de las principales amenazas para la salud de las personas que sufren de asma.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health Highlights: Pembina Institute Report- Out with the Coal, In with the New
The Pembina Institute, in collaboration with ten health organizations and four environmental organizations, has released a new report, Out with the coal, in with the new: National benefits of an accelerated phase-out of coal-fired power, which estimates the air pollution-related health benefits associated with a Canada-wide phase-out ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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CLIMATE AND HEALTH COUNTRY PROFILE – 2015 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
This graphic document summarizes the key findings and opportunities for action regarding climate change—and health—in the US. Topics include implications for health during extreme weather events, heat, changes in policy and governance, etc.