Climate Change and Rural Child Health.

Intro -- CLIMATE CHANGE AND RURAL CHILD HEALTH -- CLIMATE CHANGE AND RURAL CHILD HEALTH -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- CLIMATE CHANGE AND RURAL CHILD HEALTH -- A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT -- Chapter 1 CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS WILL BE PERVASIVE -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND -- WEATHER CHANGE, NOT JUST A FEW DEGREES -- REGIONAL VARIATION -- INDIGENOUS PEOPLES -- COMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 CLIMATE AND CHILD HEALTH IN RURAL AREAS OF LOW AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES -- INTRODUCTION -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- Search strategy -- WHAT WE FOUND -- Cross sectional studies - climate factors that determine disease distribution or prevalence -- Time series studies that quantified short term associations between weather and health -- Annual time series studies -- DISCUSSION -- Methodological issues -- Timing of exposures -- Modelling survival or risk of infection by time of exposure -- Limitations of review -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 PROTECTING OUR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT -- INTRODUCTION -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- What we found -- Health effects -- Possible responses -- DISCUSSION -- Bioethical analysis -- Ways forward -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 IMPACT OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE ON CHILDREN'S HEALTH AND WELL-BEING -- INTRODUCTION -- Vulnerabilities of children to climate change -- Vignettes of a changing world -- UNCRC -- IMPACT -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 CLIMATE CHANGE AND CHILD HEALTH IN AUSTRALIA -- INTRODUCTION -- CLIMATE CHANGE: AUSTRALIA IN THE FRONTLINE -- HEALTH IMPACT IN AUSTRALIA FROM CLIMATE CHANGE -- CHILDREN'S HEALTH VULNERABILITY -- INTERGENERATIONAL HEALTH INEQUITIES -- POLICY AND RESEARCH ISSUES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 WARMING UP TO THE EMBODIED CONTEXT OF FIRST NATIONS CHILD HEALTH.

INTRODUCTION -- CONTEXT, BACKGROUND AND APPROACH -- SYNTHESIS: CLIMATE CHANGE AND CONVERGING DETERMINANTS OF FIRST NATIONS CHILD HEALTH -- A web of influences determining first nations child health -- Re-introducing estranged neighbours - ecosystems, equity and health -- Intersectionalities -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 HEALTHY CHILDREN AND A HEALTHY PLANET: A ROLE FOR EDUCATION -- INTRODUCTION -- A ROLE FOR EDUCATION IN ADDRESSING PUBLIC HEALTH IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON CHILDREN -- THE FOCUS OF THIS CHAPTER -- HEALTH PROMOTING SCHOOLS (HPS) -- HPS COMPONENTS -- SUSTAINABLE SCHOOLS -- GREEN AND HEALTHY SCHOOLS: THE CASE FOR INTEGRATING EDUCATION FOR HEALTH (HPS) AND SUSTAINABILITY (SS) -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 CLIMATE CHANGE AND DIARRHOEAL DISEASE: PERSPECTIVES FOR DEVELOPMENT POLICIES -- INTRODUCTION -- MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND VULNERABILITY OF THE POOR -- CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH IMPACTS -- DIARRHOEAL DISEASES AND CLIMATE CHANGE -- FLOODING EVENTS AND CHOLERA INCIDENCES IN BANGLADESH -- SUGGESTED CLIMATE PROOFING OPTIONS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 FLOODING AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN RURAL CHILDREN -- INTRODUCTION -- FLOODING -- FLOODING AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION -- INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN RURAL AREAS -- THE VULNERABILITY OF CHILDREN TO INFECTIOUS DISEASE -- INFECTIOUS DISEASES ASSOCIATED WITH FLOODING -- LONG-TERM HEALTH IMPACTS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES -- MITIGATION STRATEGIES -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10 CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS ON TREMATODE AND NEMATODE DISEASES AFFECTING CHILDREN IN RURAL AREAS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES -- INTRODUCTION -- HELMINTH TRANSMISSION STRATEGIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE -- MAIN CLIMATE FACTORS INFLUENCING HELMINTHIASES -- TREMATODIASES -- FASCIOLIASIS -- FASCIOLOPSIASIS -- GASTRODISCOIDIASIS -- SCHISTOSOMIASIS.

NEMATODIASES -- TRICHURIASIS, ASCARIASIS AND TOXOCARIASIS -- ANCYLOSTOMIASIS, NECATORIASIS AND CUTANEOUS LARVA MIGRANS -- FILARIASES AND ONCHOCERCIASIS -- CONCLUDING REMARKS AND FUTURE WORK -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11 IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON AEROALLERGENS AND ALLERGIC RESPIRATORY DISEASES IN CHILDREN IN RURAL AREAS -- INTRODUCTION -- DISCUSSION -- Impacts of climate change on rural aeroallergens -- Pollen production and atmospheric pollen concentration -- Pollen allergenicity -- Pollen season -- Plant and pollen spatial distribution -- Fungal spores -- Impacts of extreme events on aeroallergens and allergic respiratory diseases -- Thunderstorm asthma -- Tropical cyclones, flooding and indoor mould -- Responses -- Adaptation -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 12 CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS IN THE PROVISION OF HEALTH TO THE RURAL BEDOUIN POPULATION IN SOUTHERN ISRAEL -- INTRODUCTION -- THE POPULATION -- CLIMATE AND TERRAIN -- MEDICAL SERVICES -- POLICY ISSUES -- REACH-OUT MOBILE MEDICAL UNITS -- WATER -- POLLUTION -- ENERGY, TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION -- Education -- LOW-TECH SOLUTIONS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 13 MEAT, CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL CHILD HEALTH -- INTRODUCTION -- SOME PRINCIPLES RELEVANT TO TARGETS FOR ANIMAL PRODUCT CONSUMPTION -- Optimising health outcomes in today's high income countries -- Meat and cancer -- Meat and vascular and metabolic disorders -- Reducing global greenhouse gas emissions -- Culturally appropriate, behaviourally realistic and attainable -- ILLUSTRATIVE TARGETS FOR MEAT INTAKE IN 2050 -- PREDICTED HEALTH BENEFITS -- Low income countries - potential benefits from increased intakes of animal products -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 14 CLIMATE ADVERSITY: YET ANOTHER STRESSOR FOR RURAL ADOLESCENTS -- INTRODUCTION.

LIVING IN DROUGHT AFFECTED COMMUNITIES -- ADOLESCENT WORRIES IN RELATION TO DROUGHT -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 15 THE EFFECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON CHILDREN LIVING ON PACIFIC ISLANDS -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND -- CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS -- SUSCEPTIBILITY -- DIRECT HEALTH IMPACTS -- INDIRECT HEALTH IMPACTS -- CLIMATE CHANGE RELATED MIGRATION -- PLANNING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE RELATED MIGRATION -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 16 FROM TYPHOID TO TSUNAMIS: SAMOAN CHILDREN IN A CHANGING WORLD -- INTRODUCTION -- CLIMATE CHANGE IN SAMOA AND THE POSSIBLE FUTURE -- Temperature trends -- Sea-level rise -- Storms andcCyclones -- Reefs and fisheries -- Rainfall, extreme rainfall events, drought and the el niño southern oscillation (ENSO) -- Links between climate events, and volcanic activity, earthquakes and tsunamis -- WHAT IS HEALTH FROM A SAMOAN PERSPECTIVE? -- SUMMARY OF THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS ON CHILD HEALTH IN SAMOA FROM CLIMATE CHANGE -- CHILD HEALTH IMPACTS FROM CLIMATE-RELATED EVENTS AND ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE -- Agriculture and food security -- Water security -- Vector-borne diseases -- Water and food-borne diseases -- Mental health -- Health sector infrastructure and emergencies -- Early warning systems and emergency response -- Sustainable tourism -- Strategic planning as an adaptation measure -- MITIGATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN SAMOA AND POTENTIAL HEALTH CO-BENEFITS -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 17 SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL RESILIENCE AND INUIT CHILD HEALTH -- INTRODUCTION -- Who are the children? -- THE CONTEXT: REMOTE COMMUNITIES AND RAPID SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL CHANGE -- A SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS APPROACH -- The amount of change the system can undergo and still retain the same controls on function and structure -- THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE SYSTEM IS CAPABLE OF SELF-ORGANIZATION.

The ability to build and increase the capacity of the social-ecological system for learning and adaptation -- DISCUSSION -- Future-based planning and uncertainty -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 18 THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS, CLIMATE CHANGE AND RURAL CHILD HEALTH -- INTRODUCTION -- KEY WORKING DEFINITIONS -- METHOD -- FINDINGS -- Key economic effects on rural and regional australia -- The true cost of the global financial crisis -- Vulnerable groups -- Prevention programs -- New groups with unequal health outcomes -- Role of non-government organisations (NGOs) -- Declining neighbourhoods -- Healthcare -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 19 AUSTRALIA, "LUCKY COUNTRY" OR "CLIMATE CHANGE CANARY": HER CHILDREN'S FUTURE -- INTRODUCTION -- AUSTRALIA - DEFINED BY HER DISTINCTIVE RURAL LANDSCAPE -- RURAL AUSTRALIANS -- CURRENT VULNERABILITY OF RURAL COMMUNITIES IN AUSTRALIA -- ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY -- POLICY RESPONSE -- RURALITY: AN UN-HEALTHY DETERMINANT IN AUSTRALIA -- CLIMATE CHANGE IN AUSTRALIA: ARE HEAT, FIRES AND DROUGHT, EARLY EVIDENCE? -- AUSTRALIA'S RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE -- FUTURE OPTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 20 ABOUT THE EDITORS -- Chapter 21 ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF RURAL HEALTH -- CONTACT -- Chapter 22 ABOUT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN ISRAEL -- MISSION -- SERVICE AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES -- RESEARCH ACTIVITIES -- NATIONAL COLLABORATIONS -- INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS -- TARGETS -- CONTACT -- Chapter 23 ABOUT THE BOOK SERIES "HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT" -- CONTACT -- Climate change and rural child health -- INDEX -- Blank Page.

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