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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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Climate change 2014 - Mitigation of climate change

Minh Ha-Duong
TL;DR: The work of the IPCC Working Group III 5th Assessment report as mentioned in this paper is a comprehensive, objective and policy neutral assessment of the current scientific knowledge on mitigating climate change, which has been extensively reviewed by experts and governments to ensure quality and comprehensiveness.
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The Lancet Commission on pollution and health

Philip J. Landrigan, +49 more
- 19 Oct 2017 - 
TL;DR: This book is dedicated to the memory of those who have served in the armed forces and their families during the conflicts of the twentieth century.
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The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report

TL;DR: This work aims to demonstrate the efforts towards in-situ applicability of EMMARM, which aims to provide real-time information about concrete mechanical properties such as E-modulus and compressive strength.
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Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify three categories of challenges that have to be addressed to maintain and enhance human health in the face of increasingly harmful environmental trends: conceptual and empathy failures (imagination challenges), such as an overreliance on gross domestic product as a measure of human progress, the failure to account for future health and environmental harms over present day gains, and the disproportionate eff ect of those harms on the poor and those in developing nations.
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Effects of Global Climate on Infectious Disease: the Cholera Model

TL;DR: The cholera model provides a template for future research on climate-sensitive diseases, allowing definition of critical parameters and offering a means of developing more sophisticated methods for prediction of disease outbreaks.
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Politics of climate change

TL;DR: Giddens et al. as discussed by the authors published The politics of climate change, which is a collection of three books about climate change written by a socólogo britânico nascido em Edmonton, norte de Londres.
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Changing human behavior to prevent disease: The importance of targeting automatic processes.

TL;DR: It is proposed that interventions targeting these automatic bases of behaviors may be more effective and ways to determine whether and how interventions that target automatic processes can enhance global efforts to prevent disease are suggested.
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Global Health Impacts of Floods: Epidemiologic Evidence

TL;DR: The epidemiologic evidence of flood-related health impacts is reviewed to identify knowledge gaps relevant to the reduction of public health impacts and to summarize and critically appraise evidence of published studies.
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Technological Transitions And System Innovations: A Co-evolutionary And Socio-technical Analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that transitions take place through the alignment of multiple processes at three levels: niche, regime and landscape, and that these major changes involve not just technological changes, but also changes in markets, regulation, culture, industrial networks and infrastructure.
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