Climate Change, Environmental Disasters, and Health Inequities: The Underlying Role of Structural InequalitiesEnvironmental disastersHealth inequitiesStructural inequalityClimate changeEnvironmental justiceWe review and analyze recent literature in public health, urban planning, and disaster management to better ...
In the past decades, climate change has been impacting human lives and health via extreme weather and climate events and alterations in labour capacity, food security, and the prevalence and geographical distribution of infectious diseases across the globe. Climate change and health indicators (CCHIs)...
Climate change is having serious consequences for health, particularly for vulnerable women and their offspring and less resilient individuals in communities with socioeconomic inequalities. To protect human health from CEC effects, efforts need to be directed toward building resilience strategies. Building...
Climate change is already increasing the severity of extreme weather events such as with rainfall during hurricanes. But little research to date investigates if, and to what extent, there are social inequalities in climate change-attributed extreme weather event impacts. Here, we use climate change ...
Health and equalityEmpathyClimate change and coronavirus pandemic are the twin crises in the Anthropocene, the era in which unsustainable growth of human activities has led to a significant change in the global environment. The two crises have also exposed a chronic social illness of our time-a ...
Health inequalities, including those related to infectious diseases, have now been pushed to centre stage. This approach represents a step-change in thinking. But as we are urged toward collective action, is it time to rethink our approach to research, especially in relation to climate change ...
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations on Monday said that evidence is increasing that climate change is taking the biggest toll on poor and vulnerable people, and these impacts are largely caused by inequalities that increase the risks from climate hazards. ...
However, this sector is also a crucial part of the solution: It has the opportunity to mediate the health impact of climate change, and to minimize the harm and inequities for patients, staff, and societies. Health and economic disparities are magnified by climate change. ...
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Projects aimed at meeting climate commitments, tackling health inequalities and driving economic reform in developing countries have been delayed or pared back due to cuts to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s aid budget. In a letter to the Public Accounts Committee, FC...