TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chan,Emily Ying Yang
TI  - Climate Change and Urban Health: The Case of Hong Kong As a Subtropical City
T2  - Routledge Studies in Environment and Health Series
SN  - 9780429763618
AV  - RA793.C4375 2019 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Notes on Contributors -- Forewords -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Principles of health, public health, and climate change -- Health and public health principles -- Health and public health -- The three domains of public health -- Health determinants -- Measuring health effects -- Weather, climate, and climate change -- Weather and climate -- What is global warming? -- Greenhouse gases and greenhouse effect -- Uneven impacts of global climate change -- Main impacts of climate change -- Average temperature rise and extreme temperatures -- Extreme precipitation -- Sea-levelrise -- Disasters and extreme weather events -- Drought -- Flooding -- Projected future climate patterns -- Climate change, air pollutants, and health -- Air pollutants versus greenhouse gases -- Air pollution, climate change, and public health -- Climate change and health -- Impacts of climate change on diseases -- Impacts of climate change on health systems -- Human and economic costs of climate change-relateddisasters -- Climate change impact on major determinants of health and human survival -- Measuring health impacts of climate change -- Methods in climate change and health studies -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Climate change impact on disease and health -- Communicable diseases -- Water-bornediseases -- Food-bornediseases -- Vector-bornediseases -- Non-communicablediseases -- Climate change impacts on non-communicablediseases -- Respiratory and allergic diseases -- Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases -- Cancer -- Mental health -- Injuries -- Temperature changes and health -- Impact on health of heatwave -- Impacts on health of cold spell -- Rainfall changes and health; Rainfall increase -- Major health impacts of flooding -- Rainfall decrease: drought -- Sea-levelrise and health -- The major health impacts of sea-levelrise -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Climate change and disasters -- Disasters and extreme events -- Natural disaster classification -- Global disaster trends -- Climate-relateddisasters -- Disasters in Asia -- Projection of natural disasters -- Risk and vulnerability -- Who are most vulnerable? -- Extreme weather events -- Definition and types of extreme weather events -- Human impacts of EWEs -- Different types of EWEs -- Health impacts of extreme temperature events -- Extreme heat -- Extreme cold -- At-riskpopulations -- Heavy precipitation and flooding -- Risk factors to flooding -- Types of flooding -- Health impacts of flooding -- At-riskpopulations -- Cyclones, floods, and landslides -- At-risk populations -- Drought -- Socio-economicand environmental impacts of drought -- Health impacts of drought -- At-riskpopulations -- Sea-level rise -- Current situation and future projection -- Health impacts of sea-levelrise -- At-riskpopulations -- Complex emergencies -- Impacts of climate change on complex emergencies -- Health impacts of complex emergencies -- At-riskpopulations -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Research ethodology I: Climate and health outcome modelling -- Climate and health outcome modelling -- Context -- Statistical methods -- Lagged effects -- The choice of inclusion criteria -- Other variables -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Research Methodology II: Climate and human behavioural model -- Cohort study: retrospective data studies -- Cross-sectionalstudy: telephone survey studies -- Other methods -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: The case of Hong Kong -- Subtropical city in Southern China -- Weather and climate -- Extreme weather events; Extreme temperature -- Rainfall -- Windstorm and typhoon -- Urban environment -- Socio-economicdemographic patterns -- Potential impact of climate change on health -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Health impact of extreme temperature and heat island effect on mortality -- The temperature-morbidity model in Hong Kong -- Disease-specifictemperature mortality: heart failure -- Heat island effect in Hong Kong -- The temperature heat island and mortality model -- Overall natural cause heat island mortality -- Heat island impact on non-cancermortality -- Cool season study -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Temperature impact on general and communicable disease-related morbidities -- Communicable diseases: vector-borne,food-borne,and water-borne diseases -- Vector-bornediseases -- Food-borneand water-bornediseases -- Temperature and hospital admissions -- Hot season analyses -- Cool season analyses -- Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) -- Rainfall, temperature, and Salmonella -- Rotavirus and norovirus -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Temperature and non-communicable disease hospitalisation -- Impact of weather on air quality -- Impact of pollution on cardiovascular- and respiratory-related health -- Impact of temperature on cardiovascular- and respiratory-related health -- COPD and pneumonia -- Asthma -- Heart failure -- Myocardial infarction and diabetes mellitus -- Mental health admissions -- Temperature, allergy, and health -- Injuries -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Climate Change Behavioural Adaptation I: Help-seeking and information-seeking behaviours under extreme climate events -- Help-seeking behaviour in urban context -- Geography and the issue with "cool temperature effects" -- Temperature variability -- Weather information acquisition; Extreme cold weather and use of mobile communication devices in Hong Kong -- Channel of information-seekingbehaviour -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Climate Change Behavioural Adaptation II: Bottom-up approach of community risk perception and self-help behaviours under extreme climate events -- General disaster risk perception in the community -- Heatwave as a health risk -- Role of fans -- Risk perception and utilisation of fans and air conditioners -- Heatwave: response to warning and personal heat protective measures -- Cold spell in subtropical urban context: risk perception, accuracy, and their association with personal health protection behaviours -- Impact of cold spell and heatwaves on physical activity in a subtropical urban population -- Community preparedness of health risks associated with the impact of climate change -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13: Climate change mitigation, policies, research gaps, and next steps -- Mitigation -- Integrating health in mitigation strategies: health co-benefits -- Global policy implication of health emergency and disaster risk management (Health-EDRM) for climate change and health -- Health emergency and disaster risk management -- Paris climate agreement -- The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction -- New Urban Agenda Habitat III: urban housing and health challenges in the 21st century -- Sustainable Development Goals -- Research gaps -- Research methodology and relevance of findings to context -- Translation of scientific evidence to actions -- Monitoring of long-termhealth outcomes -- Bridging of research agenda beyond climate change -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 14: Conclusion -- References -- Index
N2  - This book provides a theoretical framework and related technical skills for investigating climate change and its public health consequences and responses, with a focus on urban settings, and in particular Hong Kong, a subtropical metropolis in Asia. Specifically, the book examines the impact of climate change on health in terms of mortality, hos
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