Climate Change and Health
Climate Change: Our Home, Our Future,
Peninsula Voice 29/02/2024
Dr Angie Bone, Associate Professor of Practice in Planetary Health
angie.bone@monash.edu
Doctors for the Environment Australia
Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) is an organisation of doctors who recognise that human health and wellbeing require an environment; free of pollution, capable of providing nutritious food, rich in biodiversity, and able to provide for current and future generations sustainably.
The Lancet 2021 398698-708DOI: (10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01208-3)
Physiological responses to heat
Heat health protection
Impact of wildfire
smoke on health
Spreading like Wildfire: The Rising Threat of Extraordinary Landscape Fires, UNEP and GRID-Arendal
https://nceph.anu.edu.au/phxchange/communicating-science/how-protect-yourself-and-others-bushfire-smoke
Smoke health protection
Mosquito-borne disease
Transmission cycle of Japanese encephalitis virus
Australian government
Bite Health protection
Mental Health impacts
https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/improving-care/sustainability-and-mental-health/why-sustainability
Shu Mei Teo et al, 2024 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494423002578#undfig1
https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/improving-care/sustainability-and-mental-health/the-eco-crisis-and-camhs
Tips for climate nature and wellbeing
“When health is taken into account, climate change mitigation is an opportunity, not a cost.”
Dr Maria Neira, WHO
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