Managing and Mitigating the Health Risks of Climate Change: Calling for Evidence-Informed Policy and Action

Climate change affects many natural and social systems and processes that are essential for life. It disrupts the Earth’s life-support systems that underpin the world’s capacity to supply adequate food and fresh water, and it disturbs the eco-physical buffering against natural disasters. Epidemiolog...

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Main Authors:	Tong, Shilu, Confalonieri, Ulisses, Ebi, Kristie, Olsen, Jorn
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 2016
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5047783/

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spelling	pubmed-50477832016-10-10 Managing and Mitigating the Health Risks of Climate Change: Calling for Evidence-Informed Policy and Action Tong, Shilu Confalonieri, Ulisses Ebi, Kristie Olsen, Jorn Brief Communication Climate change affects many natural and social systems and processes that are essential for life. It disrupts the Earth’s life-support systems that underpin the world’s capacity to supply adequate food and fresh water, and it disturbs the eco-physical buffering against natural disasters. Epidemiologists need to develop and improve research and monitoring programs to better understand the scale and immediacy of the threat of climate change to human health and to act within a much larger and more comprehensive framework. To address one of the greatest environmental issues of our lifetime, the scientific and policy-making communities should work together to formulate evidence-informed public policy to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to its inevitable impacts in this generation and, more importantly, in future generations to come. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 2016-10-01 2016-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5047783/ /pubmed/27689449 http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP555 Text en http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ Publication of EHP lies in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from EHP may be reprinted freely. Use of materials published in EHP should be acknowledged (for example, “Reproduced with permission from Environmental Health Perspectives”); pertinent reference information should be provided for the article from which the material was reproduced. Articles from EHP, especially the News section, may contain photographs or illustrations copyrighted by other commercial organizations or individuals that may not be used without obtaining prior approval from the holder of the copyright.
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spellingShingle	Tong, Shilu Confalonieri, Ulisses Ebi, Kristie Olsen, Jorn Managing and Mitigating the Health Risks of Climate Change: Calling for Evidence-Informed Policy and Action
author_facet	Tong, Shilu Confalonieri, Ulisses Ebi, Kristie Olsen, Jorn
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title	Managing and Mitigating the Health Risks of Climate Change: Calling for Evidence-Informed Policy and Action
title_short	Managing and Mitigating the Health Risks of Climate Change: Calling for Evidence-Informed Policy and Action
title_full	Managing and Mitigating the Health Risks of Climate Change: Calling for Evidence-Informed Policy and Action
title_fullStr	Managing and Mitigating the Health Risks of Climate Change: Calling for Evidence-Informed Policy and Action
title_full_unstemmed	Managing and Mitigating the Health Risks of Climate Change: Calling for Evidence-Informed Policy and Action
title_sort	managing and mitigating the health risks of climate change: calling for evidence-informed policy and action
description	Climate change affects many natural and social systems and processes that are essential for life. It disrupts the Earth’s life-support systems that underpin the world’s capacity to supply adequate food and fresh water, and it disturbs the eco-physical buffering against natural disasters. Epidemiologists need to develop and improve research and monitoring programs to better understand the scale and immediacy of the threat of climate change to human health and to act within a much larger and more comprehensive framework. To address one of the greatest environmental issues of our lifetime, the scientific and policy-making communities should work together to formulate evidence-informed public policy to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to its inevitable impacts in this generation and, more importantly, in future generations to come.
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