** CLIMATE CHANGE
Global Health’s Great Challenge—And Opportunity
Climate change may pose the biggest risk to global health over the next century, but confronting the challenge could lead to significant health benefits, according to a major Lancet and UCL commission report (http://press.thelancet.com/
Released ahead of today’s White House summit on climate change and public health, the report describes climate change health threats, driven by severe heat, extreme weather and increasing drought, and the spread of vector-borne diseases. Cutting emissions could reduce these risks and lead to other health benefits. For example, particulate pollution led to an estimated 7 million deaths globally in 2012, according to the report—which calls for a “rapid phase out of coal from the global energy mix.”
The report is part of a growing trend to frame climate change as a health issue. As Lancet Asia editor Helena Wang and editor Richard Horton note in a commentary on the commission’s report, “Health puts a human face on what can sometimes seem to be a distant threat.”
Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.
White House Summit on Climate Change and Health: Tune In
Today, the White House is convening health professionals, academics and other stakeholders to discuss the information and tools people need to protect public health in the face of climate change. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, and others will be on the live-streamed summit starting at 12.30 ET.
* More information (https://www.whitehouse.gov/
* Submit questions (https://www.whitehouse.gov/
* Twitter hashtag #ActOnClimate
Related: Doctors Fight Coal Like Tobacco, Widening Climate Debate – BloombergBusiness (http://www.bloomberg.com/
Related: White House: Action Needed Now to Slow Climate Change – AP (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
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Pollution at Home
Some 3 billion people around the world cook food and heat their homes using unventilated stoves—a practice that dramatically increases the risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Children are especially vulnerable; weak lung function at a young age appears to be a risk factor for developing COPD as an adult, according to a study in Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (https://www.thieme-connect.
The paper found that household air pollution could have been responsible for 4.3 million premature deaths in 2012, mainly in developing countries.
SciDev.Net (http://www.scidev.net/global/
Climate change may pose the biggest risk to global health over the next century, but confronting the challenge could lead to significant health benefits, according to a major Lancet and UCL commission report (http://press.thelancet.com/
Released ahead of today’s White House summit on climate change and public health, the report describes climate change health threats, driven by severe heat, extreme weather and increasing drought, and the spread of vector-borne diseases. Cutting emissions could reduce these risks and lead to other health benefits. For example, particulate pollution led to an estimated 7 million deaths globally in 2012, according to the report—which calls for a “rapid phase out of coal from the global energy mix.”
The report is part of a growing trend to frame climate change as a health issue. As Lancet Asia editor Helena Wang and editor Richard Horton note in a commentary on the commission’s report, “Health puts a human face on what can sometimes seem to be a distant threat.”
Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.
White House Summit on Climate Change and Health: Tune In
Today, the White House is convening health professionals, academics and other stakeholders to discuss the information and tools people need to protect public health in the face of climate change. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, and others will be on the live-streamed summit starting at 12.30 ET.
* More information (https://www.whitehouse.gov/
* Submit questions (https://www.whitehouse.gov/
* Twitter hashtag #ActOnClimate
Related: Doctors Fight Coal Like Tobacco, Widening Climate Debate – BloombergBusiness (http://www.bloomberg.com/
Related: White House: Action Needed Now to Slow Climate Change – AP (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
------------------------------
Pollution at Home
Some 3 billion people around the world cook food and heat their homes using unventilated stoves—a practice that dramatically increases the risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Children are especially vulnerable; weak lung function at a young age appears to be a risk factor for developing COPD as an adult, according to a study in Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (https://www.thieme-connect.
The paper found that household air pollution could have been responsible for 4.3 million premature deaths in 2012, mainly in developing countries.
SciDev.Net (http://www.scidev.net/global/
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