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Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health

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The 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change has been formed to map out the impacts of climate change, and the necessary policy responses, in order to ensure the highest attainable stand-alone position on climate change.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2015-11-07 and is currently open access. It has received 1198 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Political economy of climate change & Health policy.

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Physical activity and cardiovascular prevention: Is healthy urban living a possible reality or utopia?

TL;DR: While physical activity has probably received less attention in the last decades, it is likely the most important among the modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular diseases.
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Scaling Up Inhaled Anesthetic Practice Improvement: The Role of Environmental Sustainability Metrics.

TL;DR: A performance improvement initiative led by their multidisciplinary OR Green Team that combined provider education with cognitive aids in the operating room to drive practice improvement that suggests that anesthesia providers can be motivated by environmental emissions information to reduce waste and prevent pollution, which is a novel and important finding.
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Socio-Environmental Considerations and Organic Food Consumption: An Empirical Investigation of the Attitude of Indian Consumers

TL;DR: In this paper , the role of socio-environmental factors in forming a favorable attitude of consumers towards the consumption of organic foods was examined and the proposed inter-relationships between the factors using SEM.
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Projected changes in the season of hot days in the Middle East and North Africa

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed changes in the timing and duration of the hot days season over the Middle East and North Africa region from 1970 to 2099 using model simulations of 11 regional models from the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment under the RCP8.5 scenario.
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Summary for Policymakers

TL;DR: The Global Energy Assessment (GEA) as mentioned in this paper identifies strategies that could help resolve the multiple challenges simultaneously and bring multiple benefits, including sustainable economic and social development, poverty eradication, adequate food production and food security, health for all, climate protection, conservation of ecosystems, and security.
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The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review

TL;DR: The Stern Review as discussed by the authors is an independent, rigourous and comprehensive analysis of the economic aspects of this crucial issue, conducted by Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the UK Government Economic Service, and a former Chief Economist of the World Bank.
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A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimated deaths and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs; sum of years lived with disability [YLD] and years of life lost [YLL]) attributable to the independent effects of 67 risk factors and clusters of risk factors for 21 regions in 1990 and 2010.
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World Energy Outlook

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