AJPH: Climate Change and Environmental Justice
2018
This special open-access issue of the American Journal of Public Health includes editorials; perspectives; historical, legal, and policy analyses; and peer-reviewed scientific articles about the intersection of climate change, environmental justice, and public health. Contributing authors explore the “carbon footprint” of the health sector; the connections between climate changes (including rising temperatures and air pollution) on various causes of mortality and morbidity; the impacts of business and political leadership on climate policy; and much more. Articles include:
- Estimated Global Disease Burden From US Health Care Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Global Association of Air Pollution and Cardiorespiratory Diseases: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Investigation of Modifier Variables
- Differences in Heat-Related Mortality by Citizenship Status: United States, 2005–2014
- Green Space and Deaths Attributable to the Urban Heat Island Effect in Ho Chi Minh City
- Climate, Birth Weight, and Agricultural Livelihoods in Kenya and Mali
- Estimating the Health and Economic Impacts of Changes in Local Air Quality
- Strategies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Laparoscopic Surgery
Additional pieces in this issue include:
- Barry Commoner and the Current Environmental Crisis
- Climate Change and Human Health: Links Between History, Policy, and Science
- The US Health Care Sector’s Carbon Footprint: Stomping or Treading Lightly?
- Linking Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change
- Are Non-US Citizens More Likely to Die From Heat Exposure?
- Building a Culture of Health in Our Changing Climate
- The Need for Climate and Health Education
- The Critical Roles of Health Professionals in Climate Change Prevention and Preparedness
- Outcomes of Climate Change in a Marginalized Population: An Ethnography on the Turkana Pastoralists in Kenya
- Bridging Climate, Health, and Equity: A Growing Imperative
- Global to Local: Public Health on the Front Lines of Climate Change
- The American Public Health Association’s 2017 Year of Climate Change and Health: Time for Action
- Global Climate Change and the “So What?” Issue: Reversing the Impact of Donald Trump
- Business Leadership in Global Climate Change Responses
- The Donora Smog Revisited: 70 Years After the Event That Inspired the Clean Air Act
- The Environmental Protection Agency in the Early Trump Administration: Prelude to Regulatory Capture
- History of US Presidential Assaults on Modern Environmental Health Protection
- The Role of Health in Climate Litigation
- Legal Authority and State Public Health Response to Climate Change
- Burris Comments
- National Government Denial of Climate Change and State and Local Public Health Action in a Federalist System
- Climate Change, Public Health, and Policy: A California Case Study
AJPH: Climate Change and Environmental Justice
Source:
Climate Change and Environmental Justice. Supplement 2 2018. American Journal of Public Health 2018; 108(S2). https://ajph.aphapublications.org/toc/ajph/108/S2.