Degraded Air Quality
This module explores how climate change and pollution degrade air quality and the resulting health consequences, with attention to populations at greatest risk and strategies at multiple levels that create co-benefits for both climate and health. Sections Note Environmental and health policies evolve with changing political administrations. While federal approaches may shift, the scientific evidence […]
Climate Change and Heat Impacts
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Planetary Health
Planetary Health recognizes that “human health and the health of the planet are inextricably linked.”1 It is a concept that focuses our understanding on the interdependence of human health, animal health, and the health of the environment.2 Awareness of how the escalation of human pressure on the global environment led to impairment in ecosystems, creating […]
Climate Change and Mental Health
sections previous Planetary Health Next Introduction to Climate Change and Mental Health
Extreme Weather Hazards
Sections References Sindall, Rebecca et al. Drowning risk and climate change: A state-of-the-art review. Injury prevention: Journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention vol. 28,2 (2022): 185–191. doi:10.1136/injuryprev-2021-044486. Flooding Health Impacts Yang Z, Huang W, McKenzie JE, Yu P, Ju K, Wu Y, Wen B, Guo Y, Li S. Hospitalization […]
Vector-Borne Disease
Climate change and emerging infectious diseases Pay attention to geographic considerations, diagnostic challenges, and the timeline of disease progression. Clinical connection: Hunting for a Diagnosis This short video (~9 min.) from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) highlights the effects of climate change on health through an illustrative patient case. Case Study: Fatal alpha-gal […]
Planetary Health Resources
Books Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, by Eric Klinenberg Global Climate Change and Human Health: From Science to Practice, 2nd edition, by Jay Lemery, Kim Knowlton, Cecilia Sorensen TedTalks, Videos, and Webinars Collaborative for Health & Environment How to discuss health impacts of climate change with patients in a clinical setting […]
Water- and Food-Related Illness
Climate Change: Impacts on the Hydrologic Cycle and Waterborne Disease These materials are based on the PowerPoint presentation by George Luber, PhD, of Emory University. Source: National Climatic Data Center, NOAA. Global Ocean Heat Content, 1955–2010. Source: NOAA/NESDIS/NODC Ocean Climate Laboratory, updated from Levitus, S., et al., “World ocean heat content and thermostericsea level change […]