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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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Reported evidence of greenness co-benefits on health, climate change mitigation, and adaptation: a systematic review of the literature

TL;DR: In this article , the quality of evidence on greenness co-benefits of climate change and health was evaluated using the GRADE approach and the authors concluded that the evidentiary foundation for greenness-climate change mitigation links was generally weak.
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A Modelling Study on PM 2.5 -Related Health Impacts from Climate Change and Air Pollution Emission Control - China, 2010s and 2040s.

TL;DR: Climate change and air pollution are two important environmental issues in China and it is important to investigate particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 μm -related health impacts from climate change andAir pollution emission control.
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A Model-Based General Alternative to the Standardised Precipitation Index

TL;DR: Two new model-based versions of the widely-used standardized precipitation index (SPI) for detecting and quantifying the magnitude of extreme hydro-climatic events are introduced, based on generalized additive models for location, scale and shape (GAMLSS), which helps to overcome some limitations of the SPI.
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Future of Public Health Training: What Are the Challenges? What Might the Solutions Look Like?

TL;DR: An overview of future trends in public health training in the Asia-Pacific region is provided and the diversity of online training resources globally are illustrated that can enrich staff and student skills and complement the authors' active, class-based teaching.
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Changing Discourses in Climate Health: An Anti-disciplinary Perspective.

TL;DR: While worldwide collaboration is needed to address global issues, it is felt the discussion surrounding climate-health requires a shift in discourse and disciplines must begin to use their disciplines not as fragmented silos of discovery but as interrelated, interdependent, and big picture oriented.
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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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