Health Implications of Climate Change: a Review of the Literature About the Perception of the Public and Health Professionals

Hathaway, Julia; Maibach, Edward

doi:10.1007/s40572-018-0190-3

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“…Comprehensive literature reviews have been recently performed to assess the current state of the science regarding climate change 2,8 , associated adverse health outcomes from weather-related disasters 15,16,38,39,66,67 , public health disaster research 68,69 , and disaster epidemiology 70 . However, we are unaware of any systematic literature review of the intersections between climate change, adverse weather-related disasters, and population health adaptation strategies.…”

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Population Health Adaptation Approaches to the Increasing Severity and Frequency of Weather-Related Disasters Resulting From our Changing Climate: A Literature Review and Application to Charleston, South Carolina

Runkle

Svendsen

Hamann

et al. 2018

Curr Envir Health Rpt

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Recent changes in our planetary climate have and will continue to challenge historical knowledge and risk assumptions for weather-related disasters. While the public health community is rapidly working to develop epidemiological approaches and tools to mitigate and adapt to these weather-related disasters, recent high-profile events have exposed gaps in knowledge and response efforts. Limited work has been done to assess the climate readiness of the local public health and health-care community as it pertains to local response planning and adaptation measures in the event of a weather-related disaster. The purpose of this paper is to review the existing literature related to climate change, weather-related disasters, and population health approaches to adapt to climate-related changes in weather-related disasters at the local level. We highlight a brief case-study to illustrate an example of a local approach to adaptation planning in a coastal community. There is a general lack of understanding within the public health community about the epidemiological tools which are available to assist local communities in their preparation for, response to, and recovery from weather-related disasters. Cities around the nation are already working to assess their vulnerability and resilience to weather-related disasters by including climate change in emergency preparedness plans and developing adaptation strategies, as well as equipping local hospitals, health departments and other critical public health systems with climate information. But more work is needed and public health funding is lagging to support local and state-level efforts in preparing for and adapting to weather-related disasters in the context of a changing climate. Our population health disaster preparedness programs need to be adapted to address the increasing risks to local public health resulting from our changing climate.

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Population Health Adaptation Approaches to the Increasing Severity and Frequency of Weather-Related Disasters Resulting From our Changing Climate: A Literature Review and Application to Charleston, South Carolina

Runkle

Svendsen

Hamann

et al. 2018

Curr Envir Health Rpt

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“…To be clear, bioinformation has a central role in TER as well because it informs the allostasiome, which is essential for patient-centered care and individual patient data research and analysis [ 9 , 10 ]. Bioinformation plays an essential role in the concerted global action to address and control the complex and multi-dimensional medical emergency resulting from the climate change crisis [ 11 , 12 ].…”

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Bioinformation Informs the Allostasiome: Translational Environmental Restoration (TER) for the Climate Crisis Medical Emergency

Chiappelli¹

2018

Bioinformation

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Health care is optimized when the best evidence base (BEB) is translated into policies whose effectiveness can be verified. Bioinformation disseminates BEB and is critical to translational health care. The survival of all prokaryotes and eukaryotes, including mammals, and ultimately our species, depends upon their ability to adapt to changes in their micro-environmental milieu and to the challenges of their surrounding macro-environment. Disturbances in the organism's macro-environment, such as the stressful stimuli derived from environmental changes akin to the current climate crisis, alter its physiological, cytological, biological, epigenetic and molecular microenvironment, and trigger concerted allostatic responses to regain homeostasis. Individual patient data analysis advocates the allostasiome as the specific pattern of biological events and pathways each individual organism undergoes to regain a balanced state of homeostasis following macro-environmental insults. Translational Environmental Restoration (TER) is the translation of BEB in climate change research into effective and efficacious policies for restorative renewal of our macro-environment. Patient-centered translational health care in the current climate crisis depends upon defining and characterizing the allostasiome as a complex systemic process intertwined with TER. Bioinformation is timely and critical to climate crisis research in general and to TER specifically, because it informs and disseminates the best available evidence for each subject's allostasiome. Concerted research must define and characterize BEB of the multi-dimensional medical emergency produced by the current climate crisis. Novel lines of investigation, including allostasione research, increasingly depend on bioinformation for dissemination, and are foundational for TER, one plausible solution to this complex health care crisis.

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“…While research on public awareness and perceptions of climate change health impacts has been undertaken around the world (e.g. [12,[22][23][24][25] ), research in Canada is limited to date. In a review of the literature that does exist, Hathaway and Maibach found that relatively few North Americans associate climate change with health harms [24].…”

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“…[12,[22][23][24][25] ), research in Canada is limited to date. In a review of the literature that does exist, Hathaway and Maibach found that relatively few North Americans associate climate change with health harms [24]. Other studies have similarly found that when prompted, Canadians can name some health impacts of climate change, but the overall link between health and climate change lacks salience for the public [26,27].…”

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Public perceptions of Lyme disease and climate change in southern Manitoba, Canada: Making a case for strategic decoupling of climate and health messages

Cameron

Rocque

Penner

et al. 2020

Preprint

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Background: Despite scientific evidence that climate change has profound and far reaching implications for public health, translating this knowledge in a manner that supports citizen engagement, applied decision-making, and behavioural change can be challenging. This is especially true for complex vector-borne zoonotic diseases such as Lyme disease, a tick-borne disease which is increasing in range and impact across Canada and internationally in large part due to climate change. This research aims to better understand public risk perceptions of climate change and Lyme disease in order to increase engagement and motivate behavioural change.Methods: A focus group study involving 61 participants was conducted in three communities in the Canadian Prairie province of Manitoba in 2019. Focus groups were segmented by urban, rural, and urban-rural geographies, and between participants with high and low levels of self-reported concern regarding climate change. Results: Findings indicate a broad range of knowledge and risk perceptions on both climate change and Lyme disease, which seem to reflect the controversy and complexity of both issues in the larger public discourse. Participants in high climate concern groups were found to have greater climate change knowledge, higher perception of risk, and less scepticism than those in low concern groups. Participants outside of the urban centre were found to have more familiarity with ticks, Lyme disease, and preventative behaviours, identifying potential differential sources of resilience and vulnerability. Risk perceptions of climate change and Lyme disease were found to vary independently rather than correlate, meaning that high climate change risk perception did not necessarily indicate high Lyme disease risk perception and vice versa. Conclusions: This research contributes to the growing literature framing climate change as a public health issue, and suggests that in certain cases climate and health messages might be strategically decoupled when addressing climate skeptical audiences. A model showing the orthogonal relationship between Lyme disease and climate change perceptions is proposed, and implications for engagement on climate change health impacts are discussed.

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Health Implications of Climate Change: a Review of the Literature About the Perception of the Public and Health Professionals

Cited by 126 publications

References 66 publications

Population Health Adaptation Approaches to the Increasing Severity and Frequency of Weather-Related Disasters Resulting From our Changing Climate: A Literature Review and Application to Charleston, South Carolina

Population Health Adaptation Approaches to the Increasing Severity and Frequency of Weather-Related Disasters Resulting From our Changing Climate: A Literature Review and Application to Charleston, South Carolina

Bioinformation Informs the Allostasiome: Translational Environmental Restoration (TER) for the Climate Crisis Medical Emergency

Public perceptions of Lyme disease and climate change in southern Manitoba, Canada: Making a case for strategic decoupling of climate and health messages

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