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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.
By Jennifer Rigby. LONDON (Reuters) - Three of the biggest global health funders have joined forces for the first time in a $300 million partnership aimed at tackling the linked impacts of climate ...
Executive Order 13990, officially titled Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis is an executive order signed by President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021, which implements various environmental policies of his administration including revoking the permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline and temporarily prohibiting drilling in the arctic refuge.
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 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 ...
To address the harm happening today, we must urgently deal with the current and future impacts of climate change on our health by building stronger, more resilient health systems, supported by a ...
Climate change is the biggest threat to human health in Africa and the rest of the world, the head of the continent's public health agency said. Mitigating that risk was top of his agenda, Jean ...
The connection between climate change and health is important to me because it hits close to home. Not only are they fascinating topics, these two issues are part of humanity’s most pressing ...