ReviewEnvironmental health perspectives2014
An evidence-based public health approach to climate change adaptation.
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- Protecting Public Health: Stories of Adaptation from Communities Across the Globe.Annals of global health · 2025Article
- Health systems response to climate change adaptation: a scoping review of global evidence.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The Double Burden: Climate Change Challenges for Health Systems.Environmental health insights · 2024Review
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- Evidence-based practice models and frameworks in the healthcare setting: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Progress of Local Health Department Planning Actions for Climate Change: Perspectives from California, USA.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Overcoming Barriers to Successful Climate and Health Adaptation Practice: Notes from the Field.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Protecting human health in a time of climate change: how Cochrane should respond.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Article
- Climate change projections for sustainable and healthy cities.Buildings & cities · 2021Article
- Dimensions of Thermal Inequity: Neighborhood Social Demographics and Urban Heat in the Southwestern U.S.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- The Future of Careers at the Intersection of Climate Change and Public Health: What Can Job Postings and an Employer Survey Tell Us?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Downscaling NLDAS-2 daily maximum air temperatures using MODIS land surface temperatures.PloS one · 2020Article
- Integrating Public Health into Climate Change Policy and Planning: State of Practice Update.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Review
- Evidence-Informed Planning for Healthy Liveable Cities: How Can Policy Frameworks Be Used to Strengthen Research Translation?Current environmental health reports · 2019Review
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundPublic health is committed to evidence-based practice, yet there has been minimal discussion of how to apply an evidence-based practice framework to climate change adaptation.
objectivesOur goal was to review the literature on evidence-based public health (EBPH), to determine whether it can be applied to climate change adaptation, and to consider how emphasizing evidence-based practice may influence research and practice decisions related to public health adaptation to climate change.
methodsWe conducted a substantive review of EBPH, identified a consensus EBPH framework, and modified it to support an EBPH approach to climate change adaptation. We applied the framework to an example and considered implications for stakeholders. DISCUSSION: A modified EBPH framework can accommodate the wide range of exposures, outcomes, and modes of inquiry associated with climate change adaptation and the variety of settings in which adaptation activities will be pursued. Several factors currently limit application of the framework, including a lack of higher-level evidence of intervention efficacy and a lack of guidelines for reporting climate change health impact projections. To enhance the evidence base, there must be increased attention to designing, evaluating, and reporting adaptation interventions; standardized health impact projection reporting; and increased attention to knowledge translation. This approach has implications for funders, researchers, journal editors, practitioners, and policy makers.
conclusionsThe current approach to EBPH can, with modifications, support climate change adaptation activities, but there is little evidence regarding interventions and knowledge translation, and guidelines for projecting health impacts are lacking. Realizing the goal of an evidence-based approach will require systematic, coordinated efforts among various stakeholders.
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