Climate Change

Climate Changes Health - Allergies & Asthma

The American Public Health Association (APHA) and ecoAmerica are proud to co-sponsor a four-part webibnar series with Climate for Health investigating the health impacts of climate change, Making the Connection: Climate Changes Health. The series explores the connection between climate change and key areas of our health: allergies and asthma; health risks in children; mental health; and transportation and healthy community design as a mitigation approach. Each individual webinar is sponsored and moderated by a leading health organization.

NEHA: Bringing Awareness to Climate Change

NEHA Celebrates National Public Health Week 

NEHA is bringing attention to the relationship between climate change and environmental health. Environmental health professionals are improving and protecting the public’s health today and for future generations. NEHA’s executive director believes that environmental health can create and sustain healthy communities by limiting carbon pollution from power plants, factory farms and others by limiting these climate change inducing emissions.

Association Between Low Temperature During Winter Season and Hospitalizations for Ischemic Heart Diseases in New York State

Most prior research investigating the health effects of extreme cold has been limited to temperature alone. Only a few studies have assessed population vulnerability and compared various weather indicators. The study described in this article intended to evaluate the effects of cold weather on admissions due to ischemic heart disease, especially acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and to examine the potential interactive effects between weather factors and demographics on AMI.

Climate Changes Health: Two CDC BRACE Grantees Take Steps Toward Adaptation

The American Public Health Association (APHA) webinar Climate Changes Health: Two CDC BRACE Grantees Take Steps Toward Adaptation will provide information about the CDC’s BRACE (Building Resilience Against Climate Effects) framework and share climate adaptation steps communities in Oregon and Vermont are taking to prevent the health threats related to climate change.

Climate Change Impacts and Options: Case Studies in the Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska

In the Northwest Arctic Borough, the impact of climate on environmental conditions is a fact of life, and with this comes a substantial challenge to the Native Inupiat lifestyle, culture, and traditional subsistence "way of life." Like areas which are being inundated by sea level rise, these changes are affecting drinking water, sanitation and other infrastructure at the "coalface" where these impacts are most evident in the US.

Non-Healthcare Approaches to Improving Health - Environmental Issues

To gain a better understanding of cross sectoral approaches to addressing the social determinants of health, the Association of Academic Health Centers is conducting interviews with individuals from organizations utilizing non-healthcare approaches to improving health. This session will focus on the stories of two organizations addressing environmental issues - one focusing on environmental health, and one on climate change & global health - and how they can collaborate with academic health centers to improve health.

NEHA supports the President's Clean Power Plan

"Environmental health professionals work in your communities to protect your air, food, and water.  The President’s Clean Power Plan builds on our profession’s efforts to create safe and healthy communities by limiting carbon pollution from power plants, which will improve and protect the public’s health now and for years to come. We welcome and support this significant milestone."

Pages