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Climate Change and Public Health

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Global climate change represents one of the most important public health challenges facing the world today. Climate change causes a wide range of adverse health effects including heat-related disorders, infectious diseases, respiratory and allergic disorders, and malnutrition. Further mitigation and adaptation efforts are necessary to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve both human and planetary health alike. Climate Change and Public Health offers a clear guide to the health consequences of climate change and the available preventative measures. Written by leading scholars and practitioners in the fields of climate science and medicine, this comprehensive volume introduces the health impacts of climate change with chapters covering topics such as heat-related disorders, food insecurity, mental health impacts, and climate-related violence. It describes the relevant policymaking processes and features policies intended to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions across sectors including energy and transportation. Further chapters highlight modern adaptation measures for the consequences of climate change and offer evolving methods for adaptation and mitigation new to this second edition. Most importantly, Climate Change and Public Health promotes a climate justice framework with crucial insights for strengthening the public and political will to address climate change. Now updated with key developments in mitigation and adaptation from the last decade, this second edition of Climate Change and Public Health offers an engaging overview of climate change and its health consequences alongside evolving methods for climate resilience.

Author Biography:

Barry S. Levy, M.D., M.P.H., is Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Levy has worked in public health for more than fifty years as a CDC epidemiologist, a medical school professor, leader of international health programs, and American Public Health Association president. He has edited twenty other multi-contributor books and authored the book From Horror to Hope: Recognizing and Preventing the Health Impacts of War (OUP, 2022). He has authored more than 250 journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Levy has taught occupational and environmental health for more than four decades. He has received the APHA's Sedgwick Memorial Medal and several other major awards. Jonathan A. Patz, M.D., M.P.H., is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and John P. Holton Chair of Health and the Environment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with appointments in the Nelson Institute and Department of Population Health Sciences. He has researched, taught, and written more than 200 scientific publications addressing climate change. Dr. Patz co-chaired the health report for the first US National Climate Assessment and served as a Lead Author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. For his pioneering research on climate change and health, he was elected into the US National Academy of Medicine and has received numerous awards.
Release date Australia
May 16th, 2024
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Barry S. Levy
  • Edited by Jonathan A. Patz
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Illustrations
68 b/w figures
Pages
464
ISBN-13
9780197683293
Product ID
38252179

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