The health burden of climate change: A call for global scientific action

Carlson, Colin J.; Alam, Mohammad Shafiul; North, Michelle A.; Onyango, Esther; Stewart-Ibarra, Anna M.

doi:10.1371/journal.pclm.0000126

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“…It also seems inconsistent with the Lancet's contemporary characterization of climate change as the greatest global health threat of the 21st century [1,2,5]. The discrepancy may be secondary to differences in how health exposure pathways are accounted for and due to a lack of data on the true burden of disease posed by climate driven hazards [4]. Health impacts linked to climate change including heat related illness, changing patterns of vector borne disease transmission, wildfire-related harms, direct and indirect harms of extreme weather events (EWEs), compromised sanitation, and food and water insecurity are expected to worsen with higher levels of warming.…”

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“…The World Health Organization (WHO) identifies environmental factors that influence human health-including physical, chemical, and biological factors external to a person-as key drivers of adverse health outcomes [3]. However, despite this broadly accepted classification, the WHO and similar agencies charged with safeguarding public health have fallen short in quantifying the true health toll of climate change [4]. A 2021 WHO report estimated that climate change could cause approximately 250 000 additional global deaths per year between 2030 and 2050, yet this projection has been criticized as an underestimate.…”

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Coding for climate: sourcing better climate-health data from medical billing

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Dunn

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Environ. Res.: Health

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While evidence points to climate change adversely impacting health and wellbeing, there remains a great need for more authoritative and actionable data that better describes the full magnitude and scope of this growing crisis. Given the uncertainty inherent to current detection and attribution studies, the improved specificity offered by ICD-10 coding of climate-sensitive health outcomes at the point of care may help to better quantify the connection between more intense and frequent extreme weather events and specific health sequela. With improved application of the available ICD-10 codes designed to capture climate-sensitive health outcomes, the ICD-10 system can function as a leading indicator. In this collaboration, publicly available ICD-10 code data was downloaded from CMS archives and cross-referenced with 29 keywords determined by relevance to climate impacts on human health from consensus literature. We identified 46 unique ICD-10 codes for climate-sensitive health conditions. By highlighting the need for broader application of these codes and advocating for the development of new codes that better document the growing burden of climate-sensitive health outcomes, we hope to drive the development of more evidence-based, health-protective interdisciplinary climate action strategies across health systems.

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Coding for climate: sourcing better climate-health data from medical billing

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“…There is a strong scientific consensus that climate change is an important determinant of health, threatening to undermine global health gains such as the reduced maternal and child mortality achieved in the last few decades due to advancements in science and socioeconomic development 1–3. However, the estimated burden of climate change-attributable morbidity and mortality among pregnant women, new mothers and young children remains challenging to determine due to the lack of clear attribution of these deaths to climate change-related hazards in a standardised data format 4. Moreover, evidence on the health impacts of climate change is usually based on association and, to a lesser extent on causal evidence.…”

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Multilevel interventions as climate change adaptation response to protect maternal and child health: a scoping review protocol

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IntroductionGrowing evidence suggests that climate change-related extreme weather events adversely impact maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes, which requires effective, sustainable and culturally appropriate interventions at individual, community and policy levels to minimise these impacts. This scoping review proposes to map the evidence available on the type, characteristics and outcomes of multilevel interventions implemented as adaptational strategies to protect MCH from the possible adverse effects of climate change.MethodsThe following databases will be searched: Embase, MEDLINE, Emcare, EPPI-Centre database of health promotion research (BiblioMap) EPPI-Centre Database for promoting Health Effectiveness Reviews (DoPHER), Global Health, CINAHL, Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database, Maternity and Infant Care Database, Education Resource Information Center, PsycINFO, Scopus, Web of Science and Global Index Medicus, which indexes Latin America and the Caribbean, Index Medicus for the South-East Asia Region, African Index Medicus, Western Pacific Region Index Medicus. Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform, ClinicalTrials.gov, conference proceedings, thesis and dissertations, policy and guidelines and their reference lists will also be searched. Two reviewers will independently screen titles and abstracts and full text based on predefined eligibility criteria. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews using the Population, Concept and Context framework and the Template for Intervention Description and Replication checklist will be used to structure and report the findings.Ethics and disseminationEthics permission to conduct the scoping review is not required as the information collected is publicly available through databases. Findings will be disseminated through a peer-reviewed publication and conference presentations.

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“…Vectors are also important because they are effective conduits of zoonotic diseases that are a significant threat to human populations (Karesh et al 2012;Schmidt et al 2013;Gibb et al 2020). The impact of vectors on public health is likely to increase as changing climates and anthropogenic activities influence species' ranges and their contacts with human populations (Carlson et al 2023;Longbottom et al 2023).…”

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“…2020). The impact of vectors on public health is likely to increase as changing climates and anthropogenic activities influence species’ ranges and their contacts with human populations (Carlson et al . 2023; Longbottom et al .…”

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Aedes albopictusis present in the lowlands of southern Zambia

Matute,

Cooper

2023

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Identifying the current geographic range of disease vectors is a critical first step towards determining effective mechanisms for controlling and potentially eradicating them. This is particularly true given that historical vector ranges may expand due to changing climates and human activity. TheAedessubgenusStegomyiacontains over 100 species, and among them,Ae. aegyptiandAe. albopictusmosquitoes represent the largest concern for public health, spreading dengue, chikungunya, and Zika viruses. WhileAe. aegyptihas been observed in the country of Zambia for decades,Ae. albopictushas not. In 2015 we sampled four urban and two rural areas in Zambia forAedesspecies. Using DNA barcoding, we confirmed the presence of immature and adultAe. albopictusat two rural sites: Siavonga and Livingstone. These genotypes seem most closely related to specimens previously collected in Mozambique based on CO1 sequence from mtDNA. We resampled Siavonga and Livingstone sites in 2019, again observing immature and adultAe. albopictusat both sites. RelativeAe. albopictusfrequencies were similar between sites, with the exception of immature life stages, which were higher in Siavonga than in Livingstone in 2019. WhileAe. albopictusfrequencies did not vary through time in Livingstone, both immature and adult frequencies increased through time in Siavonga. This report serves to document the presence ofAe. albopictusin Zambia, which will contribute to the process of determining the potential public health implications of this disease vector in Central Africa.

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The health burden of climate change: A call for global scientific action

Cited by 13 publications

References 10 publications

Coding for climate: sourcing better climate-health data from medical billing

Coding for climate: sourcing better climate-health data from medical billing

Multilevel interventions as climate change adaptation response to protect maternal and child health: a scoping review protocol

Aedes albopictusis present in the lowlands of southern Zambia

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