Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health

By N. Watts, Ma, T. Colbourn, Resources, Paolo Agnolucci, P. Drummond Msc, Paul Ekins, M. Grubb, M. Lott, Mseng and 64 more. BDJ, 2015

1,736 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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In General Health Professions

1. Solomon Hsiang
2. Marshall Burke
3. Miles Richardson
4. Pete Smith
5. A. Hunt
6. M. White
7. H. Frumkin
8. Hilary Graham

In Health

1. Miles Richardson
2. M. White
3. M. Depledge
4. H. Frumkin

In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

1. A. Hunt
2. Miles Richardson
3. J. Roberts
4. M. White
5. Sabine Pahl
6. M. Depledge
7. H. Frumkin
8. Solomon Hsiang

Citations in the corpus

• Temperature effects on mortality and household adaptation: Evidence from China (2019, background): “It has been suggested that climate change “is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century” and “threatens to undermine the last half century of gains in development and global health” (Costello et al., 2009; Watts et al., 2015).”
• Pollution from Fossil-Fuel Combustion is the Leading Environmental Threat to Global Pediatric Health and Equity: Solutions Exist (2017, background): “This warning was also sounded in the recent report of the Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change [1].”
• The Impacts of Dietary Change on Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Land Use, Water Use, and Health: A Systematic Review (2016, background): “However, widespread policy action is lacking on integrating environmental and nutritional priorities [13].”
• The Green New Deal in the United States: What it is and how to pay for it (2020, neutral): “Most independent estimates agree that Medicare for All would bring a net saving [55,56, 60], and in the light of these, Nersisyan and Wray [46] suggest a conservative estimate is a saving of 3.7% of GDP, which amounts to about $0.7 trillion per year, or $7 trillion over 10 years.”
• The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health. (2017, background): “However, more recent trends in the past 5 years reveal a rapid increase in action, which was solidified in the Paris Agreement.”
• Explaining differential vulnerability to climate change: A social science review (2018, background): “Climate impacts threaten not only their health and safety but also their ability to earn a living (Berkes, 2007; Watts et al., 2015).”