ArticlePublic health ethics2015
Caribbean Heat Threatens Health, Well-being and the Future of Humanity.
Article in Public health ethics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Article
- Heat stress in the Caribbean: Climatology, drivers, and trends of human biometeorology indices.International journal of climatology : a journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 2023Article
- Environmental justice and climate change policies.Bioethics · 2022Article
- Global bioethics: it's past and future.Global bioethics = Problemi di bioetica · 2022Article
- A review of mental health and wellbeing under climate change in small island developing states (SIDS).Environmental research letters : ERL [Web site] · 2021Review
- Co-developing climate services for public health: Stakeholder needs and perceptions for the prevention and control of Aedes-transmitted diseases in the Caribbean.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2019Article
- Nonlinear and delayed impacts of climate on dengue risk in Barbados: A modelling study.PLoS medicine · 2018Article
- Barriers and opportunities to health system climate change adaptation in the Eastern Caribbean.The journal of climate change and healthArticle
- Too hot and too humid in the Caribbean: Impacts of extreme heat events and non-accidental mortality in the tropical island of Puerto Rico (2015-2020).The journal of climate change and healthArticle
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Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
Climate change has substantial impacts on public health and safety, disease risks and the provision of health care, with the poor being particularly disadvantaged. Management of the associated health risks and changing health service requirements requires adequate responses at local levels. Health-care providers are central to these responses. While climate change raises ethical questions about its causes, impacts and social justice, medicine and bioethics typically focus on individual patients and research participants rather than these broader issues. We broaden this focus by examining awareness among health-care providers in the Caribbean region, where geographic and socioeconomic features pose particular vulnerabilities to climate change. In focus groups, Caribbean providers described rises in mosquito-borne, flood-related, heat-related, respiratory and mental illnesses, and attributed these to local impacts of climate change. Their discussions showed that the significance of these impacts differs in different Caribbean nations, raising policy and social justice questions. Bioethics and public health ethics are situated to frame, inform and initiate public and policy dialog about values and scientific evidence associated with climate change. We urge readers to initiate such dialog within their own institutions about the context-dependent nature of the burdens of climate change, and values and policies that permit it to worsen.
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