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Peyman Partovi1, Yadolah Zarezadeh2 and Arezoo Yari2,1* Abstract Background Climate change has been identified as the greatest threat to global health in the twenty-first cen- tury, with its unfavorable health consequences being among its impacts on hum...
The Effectiveness of Public Health Interventions to Reduce the Health Impact of Climate Change: A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews Background Climate change is likely to be one of the most important threats to public health in the coming years. Yet despite the large number of papers co.....
Global warming poses serious challenges to the health sector as well as the environment and hence warrants emergency health preparedness and response. Thus, the main objective of this paper was to review health and environmental effects due to climate change in UAE. To conduct the review, the ...
Given the severity of these risks, the health effects of rapidly changing climate are commanding greater policy attention and government action. A public health response to climate change refers to any short- or long-term strategies that can reduce adverse health impacts or enhance resilience to obs...
Increasing resilience to climate change requires a more systematic response than ever before. Governments and public entities play a central role in defining, enabling, and executing it.(19 pages)At a glance:Extreme weather events, like the record-breaking heat waves in Phoeni...
the full threat climate change poses to humanity in the context of disease was unknown, according to the researchers. Past studies have primarily focused on specific groups of pathogens, such as bacteria or viruses, the response to certain hazards, such as heatwaves or increased flooding, or tra...
Here we describe the personal concern and connection that Australians have with the Great Barrier Reef and discuss how the results may help with its management. We utilize a statistically representative sample of Australian residents (n= 2,002) and show empirically that climate change is perceived ...
The medical establishment is starting to take action. TheRoyal 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 ...
However, a recent survey of nearly 200 people found that, while climate anxiety was associated with an emotional response to climate change, it was not correlated with a behavioral response. If this is true for humanity as a whole, we must urgently help motivate the anxious among us. Doing ...