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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 - 
- Vol. 394, Iss: 10211, pp 1836-1878
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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 is ensured.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2019-11-16 and is currently open access. It has received 794 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Health policy & Global 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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Role of the chronic air pollution levels in the Covid-19 outbreak risk in Italy.

TL;DR: Detailed elaborations reveal that, beside concentrations, the chronicity of exposure may influence the anomalous variability of SARS-CoV-2 in Italy, providing further evidence that chronic exposure to atmospheric contamination may represent a favourable context for the spread of the virus.
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Health effects of climate change: an overview of systematic reviews.

TL;DR: In this article, an overview of systematic reviews of health impacts of climate change is presented, by synthesizing studies' characteristics, climate impacts, health outcomes, and key findings, including geographical regions, year of publication and authors' affiliations.
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Climate anxiety: Psychological responses to climate change

TL;DR: The nature of climate anxiety and some evidence for its existence are discussed, and ways to address it are speculated about.
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The environmental footprint of health care: a global assessment.

TL;DR: This multiregional input-output analysis evaluated the contribution of health-care sectors in driving environmental damage that in turn puts human health at risk and quantified the direct and indirect supply-chain environmental damage driven by the demand for health care.
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Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health

TL;DR: The Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) as mentioned in this paper was created to marshal the evidence on what can be done to promote health equity and to foster a global movement to achieve it.
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Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences

TL;DR: The high mortality and disease burden resulting from these nutrition-related factors make a compelling case for the urgent implementation of interventions to reduce their occurrence or ameliorate their consequences.
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Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

TL;DR: Food in the Anthropocene : the EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems focuses on meat, fish, vegetables and fruit as sources of protein.
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