Climate Change and Health at the World Health Organization (WHO), describes how understanding that the climate terms ‘adaptation’ and ‘mitigation’ corresponded to the terms ‘primary intervention’ and ‘secondary intervention’ in public health helped to align communication between the two fields....
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...
为了强调气候变化影响人类健康的紧迫性,引起人们对气候变化与健康主题的关注,第28次全球气候变化大会(COP28)主席国阿联酋、世界卫生组织(WHO),以及威康基金会(Wellcome Trust)等在2023年11月30日至12月12日在阿联酋迪拜举行的COP28上主办了首个“健康日”(He...
Climate change is deeply related to food security, water resources protection and public health, factors that influence human development (WHO, 2012), and has become one of the biggest challenges faced by human society (Soromenho-Marques, 2012). There is a very high level of confidence that ...
Climate change a major health threat to children, doctors warn Samantha Ahdoot, a pediatrician in Alexandria, Virginia, treated an 11-year-old and a 13-year-old who moved from Florida after a hurricane destroyed their community and their medical records at their doctor's office. ...
Source: https://www.weforum.org/publications/quantifying-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-human-health/ (根据原文翻译) 尽管气候变化影响人们健康的科学事实已得到科学家们的广泛认同,但政策制定者对气候灾害的认识还较为滞后,缺乏应对健康危机的准备和行动,而且应对气候灾害需要合作,但相关的合作和对话还较少。
According to WHO Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity (WHO 2018b). As a result of global climate change, people in many regions of the globe are increasingly falling ill and even dying as a result of th...
11 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) called on Friday for giving health a central priority in the Climate Change Conference (COP22), currently held in Morocco, and including it in the implementation of the Paris Agreement. According to a WHO statement, almost one quarter of ...
Climate change has been identified as one of the biggest threats to human health. Despite this claim, there are no standardized tools that assess the rigor of published literature for use in weight of evidence (WOE) reviews. Standardized assessment tools are essential for creating clear and compar...
Currently, climate change is one of the most significant global public health threats [1]. It has many direct and indirect consequences that impact human health. These include access to clean air, secure shelter and safe drinking water and food. Climate change also impacts the spread of climate...