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This special issue aims to identify and assess direct and indirect climate change impacts on people’s health and lives, enhance the awareness and knowledge of climate-related risks and vulnerabilities among different stakeholders (e.g. policy makers, me
Climate change -- including hallmarks like rising sea levels, ice loss and extreme weather -- is accelerating, according to a new report.
A corollary question — whether climate change would have implications for public health — also has been settled. The answer is yes. A range of possible effects has been identified, some now fairly well understood and others yet unclear. …Public health and preventive medicine, as applied discip...
Evidence from many sectors shows substantial health impacts ofclimate change, particularly for the most vulnerable and the authors argue that possible climate changes constitute a public health crisis at least as wide-ranging as the effects of tobacco on health. But according to the authors: "As ...
Environmental Protection Agency's, Indoor Environments Division (IED), requested the Institute of Medicine convene a panel of experts to summarize and evaluate the current scientific understanding of the effects of climate change on indoor air quality and IAQ-related public health. The committee's ...
This review examines the current literature on the effects of future emissions and climate change on particulate matter (PM) and O3 air quality and on the consequent health impacts, with a focus on Europe. There is considerable literature on the effects
A Systematic Literature Review of the Impact of Climate Change on Menopause: Altering the Age, Severity of Symptoms and Long-Term Effects pave the way for targeted interventions and support the need for further public health research into the complex interactions between climate change and ... V ...
Public 系统标签: climatechangehealthpublicconsequencescost PublicHealthConsequencesandCost ofClimateChangeImpactsonIndoor Environments Preparedfor: TheIndoorEnvironmentsDivision OfficeofRadiationandIndoorAir U.S.EnvironmentalProtectionAgency Washington,D.C.20460 January2010 Preparedby: DavidMudarri,Ph.D. TheCadmusGr...
College of General Practitioners— a member of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change — this week said it would end investment in fossil fuels, a key driver of climate change, citing estimates that Britain would lose 50m years of life between 2011 and 2154 if the effects are not ...