ReviewEnvironmental health insights2014
Economic evidence on the health impacts of climate change in europe.
Review in Environmental health insights, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The interplay between climate change and ageing: A systematic review of health indicators.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
- More than a feeling: A global economic valuation of subjective wellbeing damages resulting from rising temperatures.PloS one · 2025Article
- Building health systems resilience: understanding the social, economic, and cultural impacts of climate change from stakeholders' perspectives in Indonesia.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2024Article
- Health effects from heat waves in France: an economic evaluation.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2022Article
- Integrating Public Health into Climate Change Policy and Planning: State of Practice Update.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Review
- Estimating the Health-Related Costs of 10 Climate-Sensitive U.S. Events During 2012.GeoHealth · 2019Article
- Degrees and dollars - Health costs associated with suboptimal ambient temperature exposure.The Science of the total environment · 2019Article
- Priorities for protecting health from climate change in the WHO European Region: recent regional activities.Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2019Review
- Urban air pollution and climate change: "The Decalogue: Allergy Safe Tree" for allergic and respiratory diseases care.Clinical and molecular allergy : CMA · 2018Review
- Multiple Threats to Child Health from Fossil Fuel Combustion: Impacts of Air Pollution and Climate Change.Environmental health perspectives · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn responding to the health impacts of climate change, economic evidence and tools inform decision makers of the efficiency of alternative health policies and interventions. In a time when sweeping budget cuts are affecting all tiers of government, economic evidence on health protection from climate change spending enables comparison with other public spending.
methodsThe review included 53 countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region. Literature was obtained using a Medline and Internet search of key terms in published reports and peer-reviewed literature, and from institutions working on health and climate change. Articles were included if they provided economic estimation of the health impacts of climate change or adaptation measures to protect health from climate change in the WHO European Region. Economic studies are classified under health impact cost, health adaptation cost, and health economic evaluation (comparing both costs and impacts).
resultsA total of 40 relevant studies from Europe were identified, covering the health damage or adaptation costs related to the health effects of climate change and response measures to climate-sensitive diseases. No economic evaluation studies were identified of response measures specific to the impacts of climate change. Existing studies vary in terms of the economic outcomes measured and the methods for evaluation of health benefits. The lack of robust health impact data underlying economic studies significantly affects the availability and precision of economic studies.
conclusionsEconomic evidence in European countries on the costs of and response to climate-sensitive diseases is extremely limited and fragmented. Further studies are urgently needed that examine health impacts and the costs and efficiency of alternative responses to climate-sensitive health conditions, in particular extreme weather events (other than heat) and potential emerging diseases and other conditions threatening Europe.
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