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 ...
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...
The US Department of Health and Human Services recentlyannouncedthe establishment of the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity (OCCHE). Noting that the OCCHE is “the first office of its kind at the national level to address climate change and health equity,” the OCCHE will be tasked...
civic engagement—for themselves, their staff, members, and study participants—regarding: voter registration; being counted in the 2020 Census; countering partisan gerrymandering; and helping to build strong coalitions addressing profound links between climate change, health equity, and democratic ...
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 ...
HEALTH equityThis paper's aim is to provide clear basic explanation of the relationship between human health and climate change. It focuses on global warming, connecting it with the greenhouse effect and describing various effects the global warming has already had on human health. After the ...
摘要: In an Editorial discussing the Special Issue on Climate Change and Health, guest editors Jonathan Patz and Madeleine Thompson summarize key issues in the field and describe the significance of research studies included in the issue.关键词: Climate change Global health Air pollution Health ...
Seafood is an important source of bioavailable micronutrients supporting human health, yet it is unclear how micronutrient production has changed in the past or how climate change will influence its availability. Here combining reconstructed fisheries da
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...
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...