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ReviewCurrent environmental health reports2016

Using Uncertain Climate and Development Information in Health Adaptation Planning.

Kristie L Ebi, Jeremy J Hess, Tania Busch Isaksen

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Review in Current environmental health reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Science Policy to Advance a Climate Change and Health Research Agenda in the United States.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  6. Towards Improved Linkage of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in Health: A Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018
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  7. Projecting Drivers of Human Vulnerability under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018
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  8. Climate Change and Health under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway Framework.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Kristie L EbiSchool of Public Health, University of Washington, 4225 Roosevelt Way NE #100, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA. krisebi@uw.edu.
Jeremy J HessSchool of Public Health, University of Washington, 4225 Roosevelt Way NE #100, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA.
Tania Busch IsaksenSchool of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To aid health adaptation decision-making, there are increasing efforts to provide climate projections at finer temporal and spatial scales. Relying solely on projected climate changes for longer-term decisions makes the implicit assumption that sources of vulnerability other than climate change will remain the same, which is not very probable. Over longer time horizons, this approach likely over estimates the extent to which climate change could alter the magnitude and pattern of health outcomes, introducing systematic bias into health management decisions. To balance this potential bias, decision-makers also need projections of other drivers of health outcomes that are, like climate change, recognized determinants of some disease burdens. Incorporating projections via an iterative process that allows for regular updates based on new knowledge and experience has the potential to improve the utility of fine-scale climate projections in health system adaptation to climate change.

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Climate ChangePublic HealthDecision MakingForecastingHealth PlanningHealth PolicyHumansPolicy MakingRisk AssessmentAdaptationClimate changeHealth risksRisk managementUncertainty

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