Communities, Climate Change, and Health Equity

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Climate Change And Health

It’s a Consumptagenic World

2019 ◽  
pp. 57-112
Author(s):  
Sharon Friel
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Food System ◽  
Health Inequity ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
Climate Change And Health

This chapter identifies a system in which some of the key drivers of health inequity fuel climate change, which in turn fuels further inequity. This process is based on excessive production and consumption; it constitutes a consumptagenic system. The chapter tracks the evolution of the consumptagenic system through the globalization of a market-based and fossil fuel–dependent economic system. It describes the addiction of this system to economic growth as the ultimate goal and to forms of consumption that are highly polluting. The last parts of the chapter focus on the roles of an industrial food system and urbanization as two central cogs in the consumptagenic system that is pushing our planet toward irreparable destabilization. The subsequent impacts, from climate change and health equity, of both of these systems (industrial food system and urbanization) are then described.

scholarly journals Intersection of Climate Change and Health: An Explication of the Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-17
Author(s):  
Patrice Nicholas ◽  
Clara Gona ◽  
Linda Evans ◽  
Eleonor Pusey Reid
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Institutional Racism ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Future ◽  
Optimal Population ◽  
Future Of Nursing ◽  
Climate Change And Health

The US National Academy of Medicine released its consensus study for the next decade entitled The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path To Achieve Health Equity (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2021). This paper examines the report, its implications for nursing globally, its focus on systemic, structural, and institutional racism, and the intersection with climate change and deleterious health consequences. The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has led in addressing the critical role of the nursing profession in achieving optimal population health outcomes in the US. Yet, relevance exists for nursing in other global areas. The most recent US report focuses on social determinants of health (SDoH) and explicitly addresses climate change as a looming public health threat. An analysis of the key foci of nursing’s role in climate change amidst the critical role of health equity globally is explicated.  

Challenges and Future Prospects

2019 ◽  
pp. 113-146
Author(s):  
Sharon Friel
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Health Inequity ◽  
Systems Science ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Progressive Policy ◽  
Policy Systems ◽  
Climate Change And Health ◽  
Policy Vision

This chapter in the book looks forward. It begins by calling for a wider conceptual and methodological toolkit among public health researchers—one that includes systems science, social sciences as well as a focus on policymaking processes. The next part of the chapter proposes a policy vision. It considers how progressive policy systems might be created and deployed to reign in consumption, and it sets out some options for intersectoral action designed to achieve greater equality, environmental sustainability, and health equity. A focus is on how reducing material inequity produces systemic effects that are preconditions for responding to climate change as well as for achieving health equity. The chapter also reviews some of the existing global policy responses to climate change and health inequity. While acknowledging that the proposed policy vision and actions to achieve it will confront stubborn resistance, the chapter describes how change is possible through the redemptive possibilities of complexity.

scholarly journals Development and usability testing of an educational mobile learning app for climate change and health impacts

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elif Aydoğan ◽  
Ali Derya Atik ◽  
Ergin Şafak Dikmen ◽  
Figen Erkoç
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Smart Learning Environment ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Climate Change And Health

Abstract Objective Mobile applications, social media platforms are changing Internet user behavior; creating a new era of education in a connected world. We have previously reported training needs of health providers in the climate change. Aim is to develop and test an Android® Mobile app as an effective smart learning environment for climate change health impacts. Materials and methods The quasi-experimental design method was used in five phases: easy-to-reach, rich content Mobile app design and development for Android® operating system, scale development, finalizing scales to be used, implementation, data collection, analysis. Dependent t-test of pre-test and post-test awareness scores was analyzed. Usability and satisfaction were assessed with two scales; quantitative data with descriptive statistics. Results The developed Mobile app was effective in enhancing students’ learning experience, and well-received in terms of adopting and using such technology for educational purposes. Pre-test and post-test scores different statistically (p<0.05); increasing participants’ awareness level and were satisfied. Conclusion We conclude that our Mobile app, m-learning project, is successfully incorporated into the learning context; when tested, raised awareness about climate change and health effects for the public. To our knowledge, no currently existing tool to provide new mobile application for climate change education and promote awareness exists.

scholarly journals Review of published articles on climate change and health in two francophone newspapers: 1990-2015

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Hémono ◽  
S Puig-Malet ◽  
P Zylberman ◽  
A Bar-Hen ◽  
R Sauerborn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change And Health

Climate change and health

The Lancet ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 367 (9528) ◽  
pp. 2039 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Sim ◽  
Phil Mackie
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change And Health

Climate change and health – Authors' reply

The Lancet ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 367 (9527) ◽  
pp. 1976-1977
Author(s):  
Anthony J McMichael ◽  
Rosalie E Woodruff ◽  
Simon Hales
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change And Health
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