Climate Change and Public Health.

Cover -- Climate Change and Public Health -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Disclaimer -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Applying a Public Health Context to Climate Change -- Box 1-1: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a Brief History of Organizational Responses to Climate Change -- Box 1-2: Health Effects of Climate Change in Arctic Indigenous Communities -- Box 1-3: Workers: The "Climate Canaries"? -- Box 1-4: Health Co-benefits of Climate Change Mitigation Policies -- 2. Understanding Key Concepts of Climate Science and Their Application -- Box 2-1: Projections of Future Climate Change -- Box 2-2: Downscaling Climate Change Projections: Estimating Exposures Where People Live -- Box 2-3: Sea Level Rise: Scientific Basis, Trends, and Coastal Impacts -- Box 2-4: Consequences of a Rapidly Warming Arctic -- 3. A Widening Research Agenda: Challenges and Needs -- Box 3-1: Investigating the Interaction Between Climate Factors and Infectious Diseases -- Box 3-2: Applying Epidemiology for Studying the Health Impacts of Climate Change -- Box 3-3: Applying Cross-Sectoral Data Resources to Promote Multidisciplinary Collaboration -- Part II: Adverse Health Consequences and Specific Preventive Measures -- 4A. Heat Impacts on Work, Human Performance, and Daily Life -- 4B. Disorders Related to Heat Waves -- Box 4B-1: Social Dimensions of Heat Waves -- 5. Respiratory and Allergic Disorders -- Box 5-1: Occupational Respiratory and Allergic Disorders -- Box 5-2: Aeroallergens and Climate Change -- Box 5-3: Achieving Climate and Health Co-benefits by Reducing Household Air Pollution from Biomass and Coal Fuels -- 6. Vector-borne Diseases -- Box 6-1: Climate Change and Vector-borne Diseases in Europe -- Box 6-2: Climate Change and Lyme Disease.

7. Waterborne and Foodborne Diseases -- Box 7-1: Climate Change and Access to Safe Water in Urban Areas of Sub-Saharan Africa -- Box 7-2: Storm Events and Deteriorating Urban Infrastructure -- Box 7-3: Collaborative Research on Climate Change and Gastrointestinal Illness in India -- 8. Health Impacts Related to Food and Nutrition Insecurity -- Box 8-1: Severe Drought and Famine -- Box 8-2: Threats from Plant Pathogens -- 9. Mental Health Impacts -- Box 9-1: Storm Disasters: Acute Impacts and Response -- 10. Collective Violence -- Box 10-1: Migration Due to Climate Change -- Part III: Policies and Actions to Address Climate Change and Promote Public Health -- 11. Public Health Policies and Actions -- Box 11-1: Greening of the Health Sector -- Box 11-2: Health Impact Assessment: A Process for Determining Potential Health Effects of Proposed Policies and Projects -- Box 11-3: Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment -- Box 11-4: Is the Public Health System Ready for Climate Change? -- Box 11-5: The BRACE Framework -- Box 11-6: Public Health Indicators for Measuring Climate Action Success -- 12. Communication -- Box 12-1: Principles of Climate Change Communication -- Box 12-2: Presenting a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Human Health and Global Environmental Change -- 13A. Energy Policy in Developed Countries -- Box 13A-1: Policies and Actions in California to Address Climate Change -- Box 13A-2: Integrating Health Impact Assessments and Environmental Impact Assessments for Large Energy Projects -- 13B. Energy Policy in Developing Countries -- 13C. Transportation Policy -- Box 13C-1: How Epidemiology Has Demonstrated the Health Co-benefits of Active Transport -- 13D. Agriculture Policy -- Box 13D-1: Health and Environmental Co-benefits of Reducing Meat Consumption -- 14. Planning Healthy and Sustainable Built Environments.

15. Non-governmental Actions by Individuals, Civil Society Organizations, and the Private Sector -- Box 15-1: Action to Address Climate Justice -- Box 15-2: Climate and Health Alliances -- Box 15-3: Climate Change Ethics -- Index.

Orchestrating and coordinating contributions from more than 75 selected public health specialists and environmental scientists, the editors have developed a concise and comprehensive book that represents a core curriculum on climate change and public health, including key strategies for adaptation and mitigation. Written primarily for students and mid-career professionals in public health and environmental sciences, the book clearly describes concepts and their application to the health impacts of climate change. Chapters are supplemented with case studies, graphs, tables and photographs. The book's organization in 15 chapters makes it an ideal textbook for graduate and undergraduate courses in public health, environmental sciences, public policy, and other fields.

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