tal Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) leaves us in no doubt (although a range of scenarios exists) that the earth's climate is changing鈥攍argely because of the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels.1 On p 408, Hartog describes how current ...
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Destructive heat waves, floods, and wildfires, all made more likely because of climate change, have already contributed to an estimated average $148 billion in damages annually over the last 5 years in the US.1In the health care sector, while some progress has been made to eliminate ...
CLIMATE change & healthHEALTH promotionEarlier this year, the Australian federal election was touted as the "climate election," where climate change surfaced as a key political focus. In parallel to election campaigning, the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) World ...
Climate change and healthHealth equityClimate change policiesBarriers and facilitatorsMultisectoral policymakingIntegrationQualitative studyNepalHealth is foundational for climate action, and integrating climate and health policies to achieve health equity is widely recognized. While there is a growing global ...
Together, racism and climate change interact and have disproportionate effects on the lives of minoritised people both within countries and between the Global North and the Global South. This paper has three main aims. First, to survey the literature on the unequal health impacts of climate ...
As climate change progresses it will cause disproportionate impacts on certain regions around the world. This special issue focuses on one of these regions: Africa. This collection of articles provides highlights on issues related to climate disasters, health equity, health maintenance and climate-...
The scientific consensus is that global warming is occurring and is largely the result of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. This paper examines the health implications of global warming, the current socio-political attitudes towards action on climate change and highlight the health co-bene...
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Climate change can exacerbate health inequity:The changes to the Earth’s climate systems contribute to a host of health issues, commonly: lack of access to clean water, allergens, respiratory diseases, heat-induced illness, and infectious disease.2While climate change does not discriminate, the im...