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20 Apr 2018 |
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Position Statement: Climate Change Threatens Public Health
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) is the national nonprofit organization representing public health agencies in the United States, its territories, and the District of Columbia, and the more than 100,000 public health professionals these agencies employ. ASTHO members, the chief health officials of ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health must be addressed by the International climate conference COP21
The 21st Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) will take place in December in Paris. It is an important opportunity to tackle the impact of climate change on health by drafting a genuine universal agreement which would put health to the foreground in the debate on climate change […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Position Statement on Climate Change
NCEJN developed a statement to explain our environmental justice perspective on climate change to predominantly white environmental groups that seek to partner with us. NCEJN opposes strategies that reduce greenhouse emissions while maintaining or magnifying existing social, economic, and environmental injustices. Wealthy communities ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Human rights and climate change
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, and reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action,Welcoming ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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WHPA Statement on Health and Climate Change
Based on recognised scientific evidences related to the impact of climate change on health, the WHPA is profoundly concerned by its harmful effects, predominantly among vulnerable populations, including the risks of increased malnutrition, death and injury due to natural disasters (e.g. floods and storms), changes in disease patterns ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Position Statement on Crude Oil Transport & Storage
Energy companies have proposed increases in oil-by-rail transport and storage in the states of Washington and Oregon with subsequent ocean shipments from Pacific Northwest ports. While there was no movement of oil-by-rail in Washington three years ago, dramatic increases in oil extraction from the Bakken fields in North Dakota and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Statement of Policy: Local Health Department Role in Addressing Climate Change
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) strongly urges national, state and local health departments (LHDs) and related agencies to engage policymakers, government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, businesses, communities and their own staff to prepare for and respond to climate change to reduce ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Statement of Policy: Strengthening and Expanding Local Health Department Surveillance and Research Capacity to Examine the Effects of Climate Change on Existing and Emerging Vectors and Vector-Borne Diseases
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) urges the federal government to provide sufficient funds to maintain, strengthen, and expand the surveillance and research capacities necessary to track vector-borne diseases affected by climate change.
20 Apr 2018 |
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An Open Letter to the Governors of the Nation
The physicians, nurses, other health practitioners, public health professionals implore the governors of the United States to support and advance the Clean Power Plan to help protect the health of Americans from the threats to health and survival posed by climate change. They encourage movement forward to develop and submit the State ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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WMA Declaration of Delhi on Health and Climate Change
The purpose of this document is to provide a response by the WMA on behalf of its members to the challenges imposed on health and healthcare systems by climate change. Although governments and international organizations have the main responsibility for creating regulations and legislation to mitigate the effects of climate change ...