Physicians' roles on the front line of climate change

B Sibbald - CMAJ, 2013 - Can Med Assoc
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), made up of more than 2000 of the
world's leading scientific experts, has concluded that the build-up of carbon dioxide is …

Global environmental change as “risk factor”: can epidemiology cope?

AJ McMichael - American Journal of Public Health, 2001 - ajph.aphapublications.org
This issue of the Journal includes 2 articles examining the relationship of health outcomes to
aspects of climatic variability within the United States. One reports on hospitalizations for …

[PDF][PDF] Looking to the future: challenges for scientists studying climate change and health

A Woodward, JD Scheraga - … -Lendrum DH, Corvalan CF, Ebi KL …, 2003 - researchgate.net
Chapter 3 describes ways in which climate change may affect human health and
summarizes the findings of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC (1). This chapter looks …

[HTML][HTML] The climate crisis and clinical practice

RN Salas - New England Journal of Medicine, 2020 - Mass Medical Soc
The Climate Crisis and Clinical Practice The full health implications of the climate crisis may
be more immense and insidious than we have imagined. Although dedicated climate and …

Climate change and respiratory disease: European Respiratory Society position statement

JG Ayres, B Forsberg, I Annesi-Maesano… - European …, 2009 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Climate change will affect individuals with pre-existing respiratory disease, but the extent of
the effect remains unclear. The present position statement was developed on behalf of the …

Environment and lung health in a rapidly changing world

CM Greene, RL Riha - European Respiratory Review, 2024 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Extract This issue of the European Respiratory Review features the first articles in a series of
reviews entitled “Environment and lung health in a rapidly changing world”. This series aims …

Climate change and health: three grand challenges

D Campbell-Lendrum, T Neville, C Schweizer… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change may be the greatest health threat of the twenty-first century, impacting lives
both directly and indirectly, through undermining the environmental and social determinants …

[HTML][HTML] Symposium: Climate Change and Health Mitigating, Adapting, and Suffering: How Much of Each?

KR Smith - Annual Review of Public Health, 2008 - annualreviews.org
The emergence of historically rapid climate change in the twenty-first century adds new and
urgent dimensions to the age-old challenges of public health due to poverty, inequity …

Respiratory health effects of ambient air pollution: an update

F Sava, C Carlsten - Clinics in chest medicine, 2012 - Elsevier
A lot has happened since the topic of the health effects of ambient air pollution (AAP) was
last reviewed in the Clinics in Chest Medicine 10 years ago, 1 with major contributions from …

[HTML][HTML] Organizing to advance equitable climate and health solutions: The medical society consortium on climate and health

M Sarfaty, N Duritz, R Gould, M Mitchell, L Patel… - The Journal of Climate …, 2022 - Elsevier
In 2016, concern among physicians about the health harms of climate change led to the
founding of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, a coalition of medical …