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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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Public Health and Mental Health Implications of Environmentally Induced Forced Migration.

TL;DR: One particular aspect of forced migration, the effects of population displacement on mental health and psychosocial functioning, deserves dedicated focus.
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Estimating Temperature-Mortality Exposure-Response Relationships and Optimum Ambient Temperature at the Multi-City Level of China.

TL;DR: It is found that for all non-accidental mortality, high temperature could significantly increase the excess risk of death by 0.33% (95% confidence interval: 0.11%, 0.56%) with the temperature increase, and there was a lagged effect of temperature on mortality, with an optimum temperature of 21 °C.
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Shading fault detection in a grid-connected PV system using vertices principal component analysis

TL;DR: This work focuses primarily on detecting partial shading faults using the vertices principal component analysis (VPCA), a data-driven method that combines the simplicity of its linear model and the ability to consider the uncertainties of the different measurements of a PV system in an interval format.
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Mapping essential urban land use categories with open big data: Results for five metropolitan areas in the United States of America

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a robust and cost-effective framework for mapping urban land use categories using openly available multi-source geospatial big data, which integrated an expansive set of multi-scale spatially explicit information on land surface, vertical height, socioeconomic attributes, social media, demography, and topography.
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Economic Losses of Heat-Induced Reductions in Outdoor Worker Productivity: a Case Study of Europe

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the cost of heat-induced reductions in outdoor worker productivity in Europe caused by the heat waves in August of 2003, July of 2010, and July of 2015.
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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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