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Taxonomy Archive: opinion/editorial
20 Apr 2018 |
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Weather and Violence
Researchers are quantifying the causal relationship between extreme climate and human conflict.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Why Do Pediatricians Care About Climate Change?
Pediatrician Samantha Ahdoot discusses the numerous health impacts on children associated with climate change. Children are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change due to their growing minds and bodies, necessitating pediatrician awareness and action.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Marking a New Understanding of Climate and Health
With the release of the Climate and Health Assessment, the climate change and public health communities will now have a greatly enhanced base of integrated knowledge demonstrating how our environment and our health interact. If acted on in comprehensive and innovative ways, this enhanced understanding can point the way towards ...
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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Another View: Fracking threatens our children’s health
This brief opinion piece appeared in the Sacramento Bee in August 2015 discussing the health impacts associated with fracking on children. The piece advocates for renewable and clean energy alternatives.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Blame Zika on Climate Change
On Feb. 1, the World Health Organization declared the spread of Zika virus across Latin America a “public health emergency of global concern.” Zika is a mosquito-borne virus related to the dengue and yellow fever viruses. In most cases, infection by Zika has no symptoms, which means the disease is usually not diagnosed. Only 20 ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate action is healthcare outside the clinic
For years human health resided in a different ‘box’ than climate health. At first, healthcare professionals themselves didn’t recognize climate change would have an effect on their health or on their work. Then in 2009 the Lancet stunned us all with the pronouncement that “Climate change is the greatest global health threat ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and human survival
The IPCC has already concluded that it is “virtually certain that human influence has warmed the global climate system” and that it is “extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010” is anthropogenic. Its new report outlines the future threats of further ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change is making poison oak stronger
Higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in the air can encourage more plant growth, especially for poison oak.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change: Assessing effects on health and wealth of populations
Can the health consequences of climate change be at the center of discussions at this year’s climate summit in Paris? Very possibly. Pope Francis’ encyclical letter and The Lancet’s excellent report on the topic give us hope. Now the World Federation of Public Health Associations (whose Federation’s Pages we publish in JPHP) ...