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Mashup Score: 1The climate emergency could be the ultimate health opportunity, says WHO’s Maria Neira - 7 month(s) ago
Climate change could be the “ultimate” public health opportunity—but we need politicians to act, the World Health Organization’s Maria Neira tells Elisabeth Mahase Maria Neira wanted to be a diabetologist—that was until she went to work with Médecins Sans Frontières in El Salvador and Honduras, treating people displaced to refugee camps during the armed conflict. “That’s when I discovered public health and changed completely from the curative to the preventative. I wanted more impact from my interventions,” she says. “I then did a masters in public health—but I really learnt about it in the refugee camps, not at university.” Neira later spent five years working in eastern Africa, as a public health adviser to the Mozambique Ministry of Health and as a UN public health adviser in Kigali, Rwanda. And for nearly two decades she has headed up WHO’s department of environment, climate change, and health. Over that time, she says there have been advancements—including in how public health off
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Mashup Score: 1How climate change is affecting child development - 7 month(s) ago
The consequences of climate change are upending stability for many children and young people, with dire repercussions for their physical and mental health. Kavitha Yarlagadda reports Rahul Rao, a student from Hyderabad, India, has had severe allergies and eczema since he was born. Rao was even forced to move cities in the middle of college. “I had to move from Mumbai back to my hometown of Hyderabad because the extreme humidity on the coast led to flare ups,” he says. The flare ups were so serious that he had abrasions and bruises all over his body and loss of appetite resulted in a 15 kg weight loss. All this affected his grades and the move set him back an academic year. Rao is just one of many who are the collateral damage of climate change. Extreme weather events—such as the heatwaves seen in India and other countries during the past few years—increase the risk of respiratory diseases because of exposure to air pollution, smoke, and other particles.1 The presence of sulphur dioxide
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The #climatecrisis is upending stability for many children and young people, with dire repercussions for their physical and mental health, @kavithawrites reports https://t.co/bc2UMX5fsi
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We must ensure that health is once again central to all housing policy, say Isobel Braithwaite and colleagues The climate emergency is already affecting our homes,1 and it will drive a range of key health risks in the coming decades.2 Many of these are closely connected to our housing system, including overheating and increased flood risks. This situation is further exacerbated in the UK by its wider housing crisis, with high levels of unaffordability—particularly in the private rental sector—as well as low tenure security, rising rates of homelessness and use of temporary accommodation, and an ageing and poor quality housing stock.3 UK homes are among the least energy efficient in Europe,4 and the UK’s Climate Change Committee has raised substantial concerns regarding our climate readiness.5 Taken together, this will have increasing effects on health and social care services over time, particularly among older people and those with underlying illnesses.6 An estimated 2000 heat related
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To protect public health, adapting homes and neighbourhoods to cope with the effects of the #climatecrisis is an urgent priority, say @izzybraithwaite and colleagues https://t.co/pu4l7WB3OE
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Mashup Score: 1BMJ: - 7 month(s) ago
Archive Online archive 2023 07 October 2023(vol 383, issue 8401) 07 October 2023(vol 383, issue 8401) …
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🌍 At BMJ, we harness the power of our platforms to empower doctors and medical professionals in recognizing the urgency of the climate crisis. Our third annual special Climate issue is now available to read: https://t.co/ZqcEJWCx0H 🌱 #ClimateAction #Healthcare #ClimateCrisis https://t.co/KbwGLq6YXm
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Mashup Score: 2Bangladesh is facing the consequences of the climate emergency - 7 month(s) ago
Serious action is needed to mitigate the climate emergency and minimise associated health risks, write Rubhana Raqib and Mohammad Sirajul Islam If global warming continues at present rates, the earth’s average temperature will increase by 2.6°C to 4.8°C by 2100.1 In Bangladesh, the projected average temperature rise will be 1°, 1.4°, and 2.4°C by the year 2030, 2050, and 2100, respectively.2 A rise in sea levels will inundate coastal areas with saline water. The unregulated expansion of saltwater reserves for commercial shrimp farms in coastal belts is also accelerating the intrusion of salt water into drinking and irrigation water. This saline intrusion is already affecting 53% of coastal land in Bangladesh.34 Consequently, about 20 million people from coastal areas are forced to use unsafe, contaminated surface water from ponds and rivers, leading to various waterborne infectious diseases such as cholera.5 Saline intrusion in agricultural and pastoral lands results in a loss of food
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Bangladesh is responsible for just .4% of global emissions, yet is disproportionately affected by saline intrusion and displacement due to the #ClimateCrisis Urgent action is needed to mitigate the climate emergency and associated health risks, @icddr_b https://t.co/UirxNyUvJa
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Mashup Score: 0Climate friendly public health policies make economic sense - 7 month(s) ago
Investing in public health policies that help tackle the climate emergency makes economic sense, as well as being good for human and planetary health. Government investments centred around healthier environments and healthier livelihoods provide a national public good, while also supporting nationally determined contributions and global mitigation efforts—a global public good. There are four critical areas where a more holistic approach to public health overlaps with efforts to tackle the climate emergency, bringing clear co-benefits to health and climate and potentially benefiting the broader economy. These are: reducing air pollution, encouraging healthier diets, increasing active lifestyles, and “greening” urban landscapes. However, while their potential is clear, more evidence is needed as to what the overall benefits are for individual countries in relation to the investments required, as well as the distributional implications. Fossil fuel air pollution is estimated to be respons
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Investing in public health policies that help tackle the #climatecrisis makes economic sense, writes @EJZRobinson66 https://t.co/akTgj1lPZa
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Our response requires courage, collaboration, and the wisdom to learn from others Health professionals have warned about the impact of the climate emergency on the planet and on human health for decades. But despite these warnings carbon dioxide emissions have continued to rise.1 With every year, the extent of climate breakdown worsens. Scientists recently reported that the “Earth is now well outside of the safe operating space for humanity,” as six out of nine planetary boundaries have been breached.2 Several climate tipping points relating to melting ice caps, ocean currents, permafrost regions, and deforestation are estimated to be on the brink.3 Scientists continue to call for radical action to reverse the rate of decline, but political commitment is dangerously inadequate. In clinical practice, change often comes only after people have ignored warning signs for years. It can take a catastrophic event to prompt action. The climate emergency is no different. Governments, organisatio
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Collaboration across sectors, including #health #transport #housing #economics and more, is crucial to adapting to the #ClimateCrisis. BMJ editors @juliet_hd @sophiecook80 @KamranAbbasi @FWedmore introduce this year's #Climate issue https://t.co/oHR4IQJyaT
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We must ensure that health is once again central to all housing policy, say Isobel Braithwaite and colleagues The climate emergency is already affecting our homes,1 and it will drive a range of key health risks in the coming decades.2 Many of these are closely connected to our housing system, including overheating and increased flood risks. This situation is further exacerbated in the UK by its wider housing crisis, with high levels of unaffordability—particularly in the private rental sector—as well as low tenure security, rising rates of homelessness and use of temporary accommodation, and an ageing and poor quality housing stock.3 UK homes are among the least energy efficient in Europe,4 and the UK’s Climate Change Committee has raised substantial concerns regarding our climate readiness.5 Taken together, this will have increasing effects on health and social care services over time, particularly among older people and those with underlying illnesses.6 An estimated 2000 heat related
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The #climatecrisis is already affecting our homes, and it will continue to drive a range of health risks. Health must once again be central to all housing policy, say @izzybraithwaite and colleagues https://t.co/pu4l7WB3OE
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Mashup Score: 2Loss and damage responses to climate change - 7 month(s) ago
Loss of health and life should be a key consideration in reparation plans This year has seen wildfires, flash flooding, and the warmest month on record,1 a likely “new normal” as the consequences of climate change—primarily driven by burning fossil fuels for energy—unfold. Both extreme weather events—such as heatwaves and cyclones, and slowly unfolding crises—such as desertification and food insecurity, pose well described threats to our health and wellbeing.2 As such, this year’s UN annual climate conference (COP28, running from 30 November to 12 December 2023), will have an unprecedented focus on health in recognition that ill health is a key downstream consequence of inadequate climate policy, and that putting health at the centre of decision making can help drive decisive climate action.3 Loss and damage caused by climate change will also be a central topic at COP28, after countries agreed in 2022 to create a fund that aims to respond to the worst climate impacts disproportionately
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"Health workers can have an important role in documenting and publicising the impacts of loss and damage on frontline communities" @DrRitaIssa writes on health as part of loss and damage secondary to the #ClimateCrisis https://t.co/IagYgEhvs4
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Mashup Score: 1Climate Change and Cancer Care - 7 month(s) ago
This Viewpoint describes how climate change and air pollution markedly affect cancer incidence, care delivery, and patient outcomes.
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Happy that our editorial on the effects of climate change on the delivery of cancer care is out after the hottest summer since records have been kept. #ClimateCrisis https://t.co/x3VSgqNN0f
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"When you need 30 years to tackle a problem that is supposed to be one of the biggest that humanity is facing, maybe your sense of urgency is not so clear," says @DrMariaNeira, as she calls for politicians to be courageous in tackling the #ClimateCrisis https://t.co/f5q3Sx3LWE https://t.co/THrZ6tYU9r