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Climate and Health- Understanding the Risk: An Assessment of San Francisco’s Vulnerability to Extreme Heat Events
This report provides an overview of the San Francisco Department of Health’s approach to identifying and planning for vulnerability to extreme heat events and associated air quality issues, including the developmnt of a Heat Vulnerability Index
20 Apr 2018 |
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How to Harness the Power of Your Community to Address Climate Change: A Local Official’s Guide
This guide offers: 1.) Suggestions about key community engagement strategies 2.) Examples of how counties and cities have used these strategies to involve the public in their climate chang deliberations 3.) Ways to energize the community to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 4.) Lessons learned from local agencies that ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Extreme Heat Events
Extreme heat events pose a serious danger to people throughout the United States. Studies conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have shown that exposure to extreme heat can increase discomfort and fatigue, cause heat cramps, and increase emergency room visits and hospitalizations. It can also kill. From ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Conveying the Human Implications of Climate Change: A Climate Change Communication Primer for Public Health Professionals
There is now widespread agreement among climate scientists that the earth is warming as a result of human activity, primarily due to rising levels of carbon dioxide and other heat trapping atmospheric gases created by burning fossil fuels. It is also clear that current trends in energy use, development, and population growth will ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Incorporating Health and Climate Change into the Minnesota Environmental Assessment Worksheet
In 2010, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) received funds from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to review the state Environmental Assessment Worksheet (EAW), part of the environmental review process in Minnesota. The purpose of the review was to discern whether climate change and health effects were being ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Californians in their Government
The PPIC Statewide Survey provides policymakers, the media, and the public with objective, advocacy-free information on the perceptions, opinions, and public policy preferences of California residents. Inaugurated in April 1998, this is the 124th PPIC Statewide Survey in a series that has generated a database of responses from more ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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City Resilience Framework
The City Resilience Framework is a unique framework developed by Arup with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, based on extensive research in cities. It provides a lens to understand the complexity of cities and the drivers that contribute to their resilience. Looking at these drivers can help cities to assess the extent of ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Extreme Weather and Climate Readiness: Toolkit for State and Territorial Health Departments
Recognizing that the changing climate is a significant threat to the health of our communities, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) has created this toolkit to help state and territorial health agencies enhance their climate readiness, program by program. The toolkit offers practical steps for ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health Equity and Community Engagement Report
This Bay Area Regional Summary report combines the data from all Local Health Jurisdiction reports and describes perspectives of both Local Health Departments and community agency staff on key themes that emerged in discussions from the focus groups conducted. The data results presented show local priorities in health inequities and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Addressing Inequities at the Intersection of Health and Climate Change: Workshop Summary Report
The purpose of this workshop was to explore how we can find common ground between the research and policy agendas of climate change and health in order to decrease greenhouse gases while improving health outcomes for those populations that are most at risk. Specifically, this workshop aimed to achieve the following objectives: 1) ...