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The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come

Nick Watts, +67 more
- 08 Dec 2018 - 
- Vol. 392, Iss: 10163, pp 2479-2514
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The Lancet Countdown tracks 41 indicators across five domains: climate change impacts, exposures, and vulnerability; adaptation, planning, and resilience for health; mitigation actions and health co-benefits; finance and economics; and public and political engagement.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2018-12-08 and is currently open access. It has received 582 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Health policy & Public health.

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The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises.

Nick Watts, +87 more
- 09 Jan 2021 - 
TL;DR: TRANSLATIONS For the Chinese, French, German, and Spanish translations of the abstract see Supplementary Materials section.
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The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate

Nick Watts, +68 more
- 16 Nov 2019 - 
TL;DR: The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change : ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate is ensured.

The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health (vol 391, pg 540, 2017)

TL;DR: The Lancet Countdown tracks progress on health and climate change and provides an independent assessment of the health effects of climate change, the implementation of the Paris Agreement, and the impact of the global warming in the coming years.
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The Imperative for Climate Action to Protect Health.

TL;DR: The Imperative for Climate Action to Protect Health The WHO predicts that 250,000 deaths yearly from 2030 to 2050 will be attributable to climate change.
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The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future.

Marina Romanello, +92 more
- 30 Oct 2021 - 
TL;DR: The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change : code red for a healthy future as mentioned in this paper, is the most recent publication of the Countdown on Health and Climate Change, 2019.
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