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What is the impact of heatwaves on human health

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2021) C_WHO

Video

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Climate Solutions Double as Health Interventions

Mailloux, N.A. et al. (2021) CC

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(24), 13339; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182413339 The climate crisis threatens to exacerbate numerous climate-sensitive health risks, including heatwave mortality, malnutrition from reduced crop yields, water- and vector-borne infectious diseases, and respiratory illness from smog, ozone, allergenic pollen, and wildfires. Recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stress the urgent need for action to mitigate climate change, underscoring the need for more scientific assessment of the benefits of climate action for health and wellbeing

Tags: Climate Change, Climate Change an Health, health interventions, global health, climate solutions,

Source: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/24/133

Migration as Adaptation?

K. Vinke; Bergmann, J.; Blocher, J.; et. al. (2021) CC

The discourse on climate change and migration has shifted from labelling migration merely as a consequence of climate impacts, to describing it as a form of human adaptation. This article explores the adaptation framing of the climate change and migration nexus and highlights its shortcomings and advantages. While for some groups, under certain circumstances migration can be an effective form of adaptation, for others it leads to increased vulnerabilities and a poverty spiral, reducing their adaptive apacities. Non-economic losses connected to a change of place further challenge the notion of successful adaptation. Even when migration improves the situation of a household, it may conceal the lack of action on climate change adaptation from national governments or the international community. Given the growing body of evidence on the diverse circumstances and outcomes of migration in the context of climate change, we distinguish between reactive and proactive migration and argue for a precise differentiation in the academic debat

Tags: Migration, adaption, Climate Change,

Source: https://watermark.silverchair.com/mnaa02

Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Masson-Delmotte, V.; P. Zhai; A. Pirani; et al. Cambridge University Press (2021) CC

This Summary for Policymakers (SPM) presents key findings of the Working Group I (WGI) contribution to the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) on the physical science basis of climate change. The report builds upon the 2013 Working Group I contribution to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and the 2018–2019 IPCC Special Reports of the AR6 cycle and incorporates subsequent new evidence from climate scienc

Tags: planetary health, Climate Change, assessment report,

Source: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downl

Children uprooted in a changing climate

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2021) C_UNICEF

Tags: Children, Climate Change, health, Mental Health, Migration, Impact,

Source: https://www.unicef.org/media/109711/file

Establecimientos de salud resilientes al clima y ambientalmente sostenibles: orientaciones de la OMS

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

La finalidad de estas orientaciones es aumentar la capacidad de los establecimientos de salud para proteger y mejorar la salud de las comunidades destinatarias ante un clima inestable y cambiante; y habilitarlos para que sean ambientalmente sostenibles, optimizando el uso de los recursos y reduciendo al mínimo el vertido de desechos en el medio ambiente. Los establecimientos de salud resilientes al clima y ambientalmente sostenibles favorecen una atención de alta calidad así como la accesibilidad de los servicios, y al ayudar a reducir los costos también garantizan una mejor asequibilidad. Por consiguiente, son un componente importante de la cobertura sanitaria universal (CSU). El presente documento tiene por objeto: Orientar a los profesionales que trabajan en el ámbito de la atención de salud a fin de que comprendan los riesgos sanitarios adicionales que entraña el cambio climático y se preparen eficazmente para afrontarlos. Fortalecer la capacidad para llevar a cabo una vigilancia eficaz de las enfermedades relacionadas con el clima; y vigilar, prever y gestionar los riesgos para la salud asociados al cambio climático y adaptarse a ellos. Guiar al personal de los establecimientos de salud para que trabaje con los sectores determinantes de la salud (en particular los de agua y saneamiento, energía, transporte, alimentación, planificación urbana y medio ambiente) a fin de que se prepare para afrontar los riesgos sanitarios adicionales que entraña el cambio climático mediante un enfoque de resiliencia, y promueva prácticas ambientalmente sostenibles en la prestación de los servicios. Proporcionar al personal de los centros salud instrumentos que le ayuden a evaluar la resiliencia de los establecimientos ante las amenazas del cambio climático y su sostenibilidad ambiental a partir del uso adecuado de los recursos (en particular el agua y la energía y las adquisiciones sostenibles) y el vertido de desechos peligrosos (biológicos, químicos y radiológicos) en el medio circundante. Promover medidas encaminadas al fortalecimiento constante y creciente de los establecimientos de salud y a garantizar que sigan siendo eficientes y responsivos para mejorar la salud y contribuyan a reducir las inequidades y la vulnerabilidad en los entornos en que están implantados

Tags: Health and climate change, Environmental Health Services, guidance, sustainability, Healthcare facilities, WHO, planetary health,

Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/3

Climate change and health: vulnerability and adaptation assessment (Update)

World Health Organization WHO; PAHO; et al. (2021) C_WHO

In 2013 the World Health Organization (WHO) published the report Protecting health from climate change:vulnerability and adaptation assessment. The aim was to provide basic and flexible guidance on conducting national or subnational assessments of current and future vulnerability (the susceptibility of a population or region to harm) to the health risks of climate change, and of policies and programmes that could increase resilience, taking into account the multiple determinants of climate-sensitive health outcomes. That guidance has been a very useful tool, applied to more than 50 countries and settings, and has helped countries to prepare their health contributions to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change national adaptation plans. Since the launch of the guidance, WHO, technical partners such as Health Canada, and countries have learned much in terms of its applicability in different countries, at national and local levels. At the same time, knowledge on climate change and health has increased. WHO, the Pan American Health Organization and Health Canada have produced this updated version, which aims to better support countries in their assessments by proposing a simpler tool that incorporates all lessons learned

Tags: Health and climate change, Adaptation, Vulnerability Assessment, planetary health, Healthcare systems, best practice, Lessons learned,

Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/3

Climate change-induced migration: a bibliometric review

García, J.M.; Caparrós-Martínez J.L., Rueda-López N., et al. (2021) CC

Globalization and Health (2021) 17:74 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-021-00722-3

Tags: planetary health, training, education, resource platform, climate change, migration,

Source: https://globalizationandhealth.biomedcen

The Impact of Climate Change on Health: Reducing Risks and Increasing Resilience in the Era of COVID-19

Machalaba; C.; Bouley, T. A.; Nunziata, K. R.; et al. (2021) C1

The climate crisis has many consequences – among them widespread health impacts that will lead to immense societal, ecological, and economic harm. Over the past two decades multiple large-scale reviews on climate change and health have made clear the need for a multi-sectoral approach to target the drivers and impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem degradation. Despite this abundance of scientific evidence underscoring urgency of action, policy implementation responses lag behind. Even at COP26, itself delayed due to an ongoing pandemic, health continues to be considered by many countries a problem independent from climate and environment

Tags: health consequences, Climate Change, COVID-19, Resilience, Impact,

Source: https://www.reckitt.com/media/9552/the-i

Heat and health

The Lancet (2021) CC

Lancet 2021; 398: Series: Heat and Health Hot weather and heat extremes harm human health, with poverty, ageing, and chronic illnesses as aggravating factors. As the global community contends with even hotter weather in a changing climate, there is a pressing need to better understand the most effective prevention and response measures, particularly in low-resource settings. In this two-paper series, the physiological, social, and environmental factors that contribute to individual heat vulnerability, and the megatrends affecting future heat-related morbidity and mortality at the population level, are comprehensively reviewed. Solutions to address the physiological heat strain that underlies the negative health effects of heat extremes and hot weather, which can be employed across a range of settings at individual, building, and landscape scales, are presented

Tags: heat, Climate Change, health, Impact, mortality, environmental factors, green cities,

Source: https://www.thelancet.com/series/heat-an

	What is the impact of heatwaves on human health Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2021) C_WHO Open external link (213) Add to my MEDBOX Video Tags: heat wave, impact on health, Video, Source: https://youtu.be/dJL4-Yw-wXY
	Climate Solutions Double as Health Interventions Mailloux, N.A. et al. (2021) CC Open external link (208) Add to my MEDBOX Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(24), 13339; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182413339 The climate crisis threatens to exacerbate numerous climate-sensitive health risks, including heatwave mortality, malnutrition from reduced crop yields, water- and vector-borne infectious diseases, and respiratory illness from smog, ozone, allergenic pollen, and wildfires. Recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stress the urgent need for action to mitigate climate change, underscoring the need for more scientific assessment of the benefits of climate action for health and wellbeing Tags: Climate Change, Climate Change an Health, health interventions, global health, climate solutions, Source: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/24/133
	Migration as Adaptation? K. Vinke; Bergmann, J.; Blocher, J.; et. al. (2021) CC View PDF(57) Download (32) Add to my MEDBOX The discourse on climate change and migration has shifted from labelling migration merely as a consequence of climate impacts, to describing it as a form of human adaptation. This article explores the adaptation framing of the climate change and migration nexus and highlights its shortcomings and advantages. While for some groups, under certain circumstances migration can be an effective form of adaptation, for others it leads to increased vulnerabilities and a poverty spiral, reducing their adaptive apacities. Non-economic losses connected to a change of place further challenge the notion of successful adaptation. Even when migration improves the situation of a household, it may conceal the lack of action on climate change adaptation from national governments or the international community. Given the growing body of evidence on the diverse circumstances and outcomes of migration in the context of climate change, we distinguish between reactive and proactive migration and argue for a precise differentiation in the academic debat Tags: Migration, adaption, Climate Change, Source: https://watermark.silverchair.com/mnaa02
	Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Masson-Delmotte, V.; P. Zhai; A. Pirani; et al. Cambridge University Press (2021) CC Open external link (131) Add to my MEDBOX This Summary for Policymakers (SPM) presents key findings of the Working Group I (WGI) contribution to the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) on the physical science basis of climate change. The report builds upon the 2013 Working Group I contribution to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and the 2018–2019 IPCC Special Reports of the AR6 cycle and incorporates subsequent new evidence from climate scienc Tags: planetary health, Climate Change, assessment report, Source: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downl
	Children uprooted in a changing climate UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2021) C_UNICEF View PDF(64) Download (26) Add to my MEDBOX Tags: Children, Climate Change, health, Mental Health, Migration, Impact, Source: https://www.unicef.org/media/109711/file
	Establecimientos de salud resilientes al clima y ambientalmente sostenibles: orientaciones de la OMS World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO View PDF(65) Download (20) Add to my MEDBOX La finalidad de estas orientaciones es aumentar la capacidad de los establecimientos de salud para proteger y mejorar la salud de las comunidades destinatarias ante un clima inestable y cambiante; y habilitarlos para que sean ambientalmente sostenibles, optimizando el uso de los recursos y reduciendo al mínimo el vertido de desechos en el medio ambiente. Los establecimientos de salud resilientes al clima y ambientalmente sostenibles favorecen una atención de alta calidad así como la accesibilidad de los servicios, y al ayudar a reducir los costos también garantizan una mejor asequibilidad. Por consiguiente, son un componente importante de la cobertura sanitaria universal (CSU). El presente documento tiene por objeto: Orientar a los profesionales que trabajan en el ámbito de la atención de salud a fin de que comprendan los riesgos sanitarios adicionales que entraña el cambio climático y se preparen eficazmente para afrontarlos. Fortalecer la capacidad para llevar a cabo una vigilancia eficaz de las enfermedades relacionadas con el clima; y vigilar, prever y gestionar los riesgos para la salud asociados al cambio climático y adaptarse a ellos. Guiar al personal de los establecimientos de salud para que trabaje con los sectores determinantes de la salud (en particular los de agua y saneamiento, energía, transporte, alimentación, planificación urbana y medio ambiente) a fin de que se prepare para afrontar los riesgos sanitarios adicionales que entraña el cambio climático mediante un enfoque de resiliencia, y promueva prácticas ambientalmente sostenibles en la prestación de los servicios. Proporcionar al personal de los centros salud instrumentos que le ayuden a evaluar la resiliencia de los establecimientos ante las amenazas del cambio climático y su sostenibilidad ambiental a partir del uso adecuado de los recursos (en particular el agua y la energía y las adquisiciones sostenibles) y el vertido de desechos peligrosos (biológicos, químicos y radiológicos) en el medio circundante. Promover medidas encaminadas al fortalecimiento constante y creciente de los establecimientos de salud y a garantizar que sigan siendo eficientes y responsivos para mejorar la salud y contribuyan a reducir las inequidades y la vulnerabilidad en los entornos en que están implantados Tags: Health and climate change, Environmental Health Services, guidance, sustainability, Healthcare facilities, WHO, planetary health, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/3
	Climate change and health: vulnerability and adaptation assessment (Update) World Health Organization WHO; PAHO; et al. (2021) C_WHO View PDF(56) Download (24) Add to my MEDBOX In 2013 the World Health Organization (WHO) published the report Protecting health from climate change:vulnerability and adaptation assessment. The aim was to provide basic and flexible guidance on conducting national or subnational assessments of current and future vulnerability (the susceptibility of a population or region to harm) to the health risks of climate change, and of policies and programmes that could increase resilience, taking into account the multiple determinants of climate-sensitive health outcomes. That guidance has been a very useful tool, applied to more than 50 countries and settings, and has helped countries to prepare their health contributions to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change national adaptation plans. Since the launch of the guidance, WHO, technical partners such as Health Canada, and countries have learned much in terms of its applicability in different countries, at national and local levels. At the same time, knowledge on climate change and health has increased. WHO, the Pan American Health Organization and Health Canada have produced this updated version, which aims to better support countries in their assessments by proposing a simpler tool that incorporates all lessons learned Tags: Health and climate change, Adaptation, Vulnerability Assessment, planetary health, Healthcare systems, best practice, Lessons learned, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/3
	Climate change-induced migration: a bibliometric review García, J.M.; Caparrós-Martínez J.L., Rueda-López N., et al. (2021) CC View PDF(65) Download (30) Add to my MEDBOX Globalization and Health (2021) 17:74 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-021-00722-3 Tags: planetary health, training, education, resource platform, climate change, migration, Source: https://globalizationandhealth.biomedcen
	The Impact of Climate Change on Health: Reducing Risks and Increasing Resilience in the Era of COVID-19 Machalaba; C.; Bouley, T. A.; Nunziata, K. R.; et al. (2021) C1 View PDF(62) Download (27) Add to my MEDBOX The climate crisis has many consequences – among them widespread health impacts that will lead to immense societal, ecological, and economic harm. Over the past two decades multiple large-scale reviews on climate change and health have made clear the need for a multi-sectoral approach to target the drivers and impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem degradation. Despite this abundance of scientific evidence underscoring urgency of action, policy implementation responses lag behind. Even at COP26, itself delayed due to an ongoing pandemic, health continues to be considered by many countries a problem independent from climate and environment Tags: health consequences, Climate Change, COVID-19, Resilience, Impact, Source: https://www.reckitt.com/media/9552/the-i
	Heat and health The Lancet (2021) CC Open external link (431) Add to my MEDBOX Lancet 2021; 398: Series: Heat and Health Hot weather and heat extremes harm human health, with poverty, ageing, and chronic illnesses as aggravating factors. As the global community contends with even hotter weather in a changing climate, there is a pressing need to better understand the most effective prevention and response measures, particularly in low-resource settings. In this two-paper series, the physiological, social, and environmental factors that contribute to individual heat vulnerability, and the megatrends affecting future heat-related morbidity and mortality at the population level, are comprehensively reviewed. Solutions to address the physiological heat strain that underlies the negative health effects of heat extremes and hot weather, which can be employed across a range of settings at individual, building, and landscape scales, are presented Tags: heat, Climate Change, health, Impact, mortality, environmental factors, green cities, Source: https://www.thelancet.com/series/heat-an