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Taxonomy Archive: position paper/statement
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The Impact on Women’s Health of Climatic and Economic Disaster
Globally, women and children are at greater risk both during and after a disaster and more women than men die in disasters. Climatic disaster affects women disproportionately as the risk is multiplied by women’s economic vulnerability. More women than men inhabit risk-prone localities and inadequate housing, and through poverty, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Obligations
This resolution seeks to unify the voices of Canadian Registered Nurses for healthy public policy provincially, territorially and nationally, in one of the defining challenges of our time: climate change. It seeks to strengthen the leadership that RNs have provided in this area, and in so doing, change public policy in a way that ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Health
The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) believes that changes in our climate are occurring worldwide and that nurses have a role in supporting adaptation to and mitigation of climate change through nursing practice, research, administration, education and policy. The most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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People’s Test on Climate 2015
Nothing less than a systemic transformation of our societies, our economies, and our world will suffice to solve the climate crisis and close the ever-increasing inequality gap. After over 20 years of stunted and ineffective action to reduce climate pollution by governments – particularly in wealthy countries that have failed to ...
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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Los Angeles Declaration on Climate Action
Climate change is a global challenge that calls for local action. The Path to Positive: Los Angeles campaign engages leaders from local government, faith, higher education, business, and health sectors on climate solutions.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change: A Risk Assessment
This report argues that the risks of climate change should be assessed in the same way as risks to national security, financial stability, or public health. That means we should concentrate especially on understanding what is the worst that could happen, and how likely that might be. The report presents a climate change risk ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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RACP Climate Change and Health Position Statement
The medical profession has a duty of care to protect and promote the health of our patients and the community. Climate change presents a current and ongoing threat to human health globally. The medical profession has a responsibility to advocate for strong action to mitigate climate change and its consequences and to understand and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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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 |
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Health and Ethics Policies of the American Medical Association House of Delegates
H-135.938 Global Climate Change and Human Health H-135.973 Stewardship of the Environment H-135.977 Global Climate Change – The “Greenhouse Effect”