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PARTNERSHIP EVENTS
Conference: Healthy Environments Across Generations 2/14/12: MP3 recording available: Health Effects of Indoor Air Contaminants
CHE WORKING GROUP EVENTS
CHE Fertility call: Environmental Contributors to Preterm Birth:
March 19, 2012
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Climate Change and Health Working GroupClimate change, the issue of our era, has a significant impact on public health. Climate change leads to floods, drought, diminishing supplies of clean water and food, the spread of infectious diseases, and increases in air pollution and heat waves, all of which threaten human health. According to the World Health Organization, at least 150, 000 people worldwide die annually due to the health affects of climate change. As the planet warms and weather patterns shift even more dramatically, this number is likely to rise. While certain US public health agencies have started to address climate change, the medical community in the US has virtually ignored this health threat. The public health impacts of climate change are absent from the standard medical school curriculum, and few of the medical societies have begun to address the health impacts of climate change at conferences. At the same time, more and more articles about climate change and health are being published in peer-reviewed journals, so researchers are doing their best to document the scope of the problem. This new CHE working group is taking the lead to disseminate information on climate change and public health and to address this knowledge gap. In creating a CHE climate change and health working group, CHE is bringing together public health and medical experts concerned about this issue. The Climate Change and Health Working Group helps to keep its members on top of current published literature and holds quarterly conference calls. In the future, the group will also host webinars involving experts in the field of climate change and health.
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