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National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service. Website. www .ncei .noaa .gov. The National Centers for Environmental Information ( NCEI) is a U.S. government agency that manages one of the world's largest archives of atmospheric, coastal, geophysical, and oceanic data. The current director is Derek Arndt.
The Global Climate and Health Alliance ( GCHA) is an organisation, whose members are health professionals and institutes from around the world, with the purpose of tackling climate change to protect and promote public health. It was formed in 2011 in Durban and by 2015 had admitted over 1,700 health organisations and 8,200 hospitals and health ...
The health effects of climate change are increasingly a matter of concern for the international public health policy community. In 2009, a publication in the general medical journal The Lancet stated that "Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century". The World Health Organization reiterated this in 2015.
Sustainable healthcare is organised medical care that ensures the health needs of the current population are met, without compromising environmental, economic or social resources for future generations . Commonly used schematics of the tripartite description of sustainability: Left, typical representation of sustainability as three intersecting ...
Both crises are global in nature, and both disproportionately affect the most vulnerable communities of color. In the United States alone, COVID-19 hit Black communities the hardest. “The COVID ...
However, climate change is likely to affect the health of the most vulnerable in high income countries as well. “These conditions can create or intensify exposures to hazards that impact human health, like extreme heat, poor air quality, reduced food and water quality, and displacement of populations of people,” she tells Medical News Today.
The climate and health crises are trapping people in a cycle of poverty and despair. Estimates project that 1.2 billion people will be displaced by climate change by 2050. Action is needed today ...
Among the new tools is an experimental system from NOAA called “ HeatRisk ,” which provides a seven-day heat forecast for locations across the contiguous U.S. A numerical and color-coded scale ...