Brexit, COVID-19 and climate change: mapping the impact of the ‘triple challenge’ on health and well-being in wales

Green, Liz; Ashton, Kathryn; Azam, Sumina; Clemens, Timo; Bellis, Mark A

doi:10.1080/14615517.2022.2154434

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“…23 The HIA has proven to be a beneficial process for Wales and has provided a robust evidence base that public health and health services agencies can use to mobilise action and engage with key stakeholders. 23,24 Population groups identified as being unequally impacted by climate change include healthcare workforces, occupational groups such as outdoor workers, healthcare service users such as those with long-term conditions. The Welsh work has engaged stakeholders through evidence gathering and led to fruitful and long-term conversations to maximise health equity and minimise or take action on vulnerability.…”

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Developing a climate change inequality health impact assessment for health services

Haigh,

Crimeen,

Green

et al. 2023

Public Health Res Pract.

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This paper presents a Climate Change Inequality Health Impact Assessment (CCIHIA) framework for health services to assess and address the unequal impacts of climate change on vulnerable and marginalised populations • The CCIHIA provides a process and framework to bring together stakeholders, decision-makers, and different types of evidence to assess, characterise and address unequal climate change impacts across multiple intervention points • The framework identifies different levels on which health services can act to reduce the inequitable impacts of climate change across populations

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Developing a climate change inequality health impact assessment for health services

Haigh,

Crimeen,

Green

et al. 2023

Public Health Res Pract.

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“…Wales is a country in the United Kingdom which borders with England and the Irish and Celtic seas, with a population of around 3.1 million people. Increasingly frequent extreme weather events have occurred in Wales in recent years [ 9 ], impacting infrastructure, services, and the physical and mental health of the population [ 10 ]. Wales has a strong record for assessing the public health implications of policies and events [ 10 – 12 ].…”

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“…Increasingly frequent extreme weather events have occurred in Wales in recent years [ 9 ], impacting infrastructure, services, and the physical and mental health of the population [ 10 ]. Wales has a strong record for assessing the public health implications of policies and events [ 10 – 12 ]. This is further supported by the enabling environment to facilitate sustainable development, address climate change and create a more resilient, healthier Wales.…”

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Determining the Public Health Impact of Climate Change: A National Study Using a Health Impact Assessment Approach in Wales

Green,

Ashton,

Edmonds

et al. 2024

Int J Public Health

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Objective: Climate change is recognised as the biggest threat to global health of the 21st century and impacts on health and wellbeing through a range of factors. Due to this, the need to take action in order to protect population health and wellbeing is becoming ever more urgent.Methods: In 2019, Public Health Wales carried out a comprehensive mixed-method Health Impact Assessment (HIA) of climate change. Unlike other risk assessments, it appraised the potential impact of climate change on health and inequalities in Wales through participatory workshops, stakeholder consultations, systematic literature reviews and case studies.Results: The HIA findings indicate potential impacts across the wider determinants of health and wellbeing. For example, air quality, excess heat/cold, flooding, economic productivity, infrastructure, and community resilience. A range of impacts were identified across population groups, settings, and geographical areas.Conclusion: These findings can inform decision-makers to prepare for climate change plans and policies using an evidence-informed approach. The work has demonstrated the value of a HIA approach by mobilising a range of evidence through a transparent process, resulting in transferrable learning for others.

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Household food insecurity in the UK: data and research landscape

Lambie-Mumford,

Loopstra,

Okell

2023

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Household food insecurity is a widely used concept in high-income countries to describe “uncertainty about future food availability and access, insufficiency in the amount and kind of food required for a healthy lifestyle, or the need to use socially unacceptable ways to acquire food.” (Anderson, 1990). In the UK, research focused on food insecurity was relatively rare before the rapid spread of food banks and growing usage from 2010 but since then, has burgeoned (Loopstra and Lambie-Mumford, 2023). There was very little peer-reviewed literature on the topic in the UK when DEFRA commissioned a Rapid Evidence Assessment of evidence on food aid in the UK (Lambie-Mumford et al 2014), but there is now an established field of research on household food insecurity and responses to it that spans disciplines including public health and nutrition, social policy, politics, geography, food policy and systems. Government monitoring of food insecurity has also evolved over this time, with the FSA first including a food insecurity measure into the Food and You survey in 2016, and the DWP including the same in the FRS from 2019/20. The Agriculture Act 2020 requires the UK government to report on food security to Parliament at least once every three years, and the UK Food Security Report that is produced to fulfil this duty now includes reporting on data from these government surveys (Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021). This rapidly developing field has resulted in a varied landscape of research and evidence on food insecurity. The FSA has an interest in advancing its research on household food insecurity in the UK as part of its strategy. The FSA works to protect consumers’ wider interests in relation to food, and the FSA strategy 2022-2027 recognises that people are worried about food affordability and insecurity and therefore they will continue to consider the impact of these issues across all work. To inform the FSA’s approach to future collaborations and research priorities on food insecurity in the UK, it was deemed a priority to first gain greater clarity on the scope of the research landscape already in existence in the UK. Thus, this research was commissioned to give the FSA an overview of household food insecurity data and the landscape of the type of research questions related to food insecurity that have been explored in the UK context. More specifically, the aims of the project were: to scope the landscape of research and data on household food insecurity in the UK, covering that produced by academia, civil society, and government departments and including publicly available datasets; and to identify the key gaps in the research landscape and inform priorities for the FSA’s work on household food insecurity going forward. Importantly, the task was not to describe the findings of this large body of research, but rather to identify the landscape of research questions asked in relation to food insecurity and the approaches taken to answer these. The areas focused on were research on definition, concept and measurement of food insecurity, drivers of individual/household-level access to food, experiences of different population sub-groups, outcomes related to food insecurity including those related to food safety, and responses to food insecurity at the national/local level (including those by third sector organisations and local and national governments).

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Brexit, COVID-19 and climate change: mapping the impact of the ‘triple challenge’ on health and well-being in wales

Cited by 3 publications

References 47 publications

Developing a climate change inequality health impact assessment for health services

Developing a climate change inequality health impact assessment for health services

Determining the Public Health Impact of Climate Change: A National Study Using a Health Impact Assessment Approach in Wales

Household food insecurity in the UK: data and research landscape

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