ReviewCurrent environmental health reports2016
An Overview of Occupational Risks From Climate Change.
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 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 70 citations in OpenAlex.
- Investigation of the usage of machine learning to explore the impacts of climate change on occupational health: a systematic review and research agenda.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Allergic Respiratory Diseases in the Climate Change Context: Aerobiological Tools and Projections as Preventive Actions for Pollen-Induced Allergies.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Population Aging and the Burden of Chronic Health Conditions Among Mexican-Born Undocumented Farmworkers in the U.S.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2026Article
- Understanding stressors in combination: a continued challenge for human performance.Experimental physiology · 2026Review
- Occupational characteristics are missing from heat vulnerability indices: a study in New York and New Jersey.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2026Article
- Climate Change and Respiratory Health: Opportunities to Contribute to Environmental Justice: An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2025Article
- Climate change and its environmental and health effects from 2015 to 2022: A scoping review.Heliyon · 2025Review
- Developing a community-prioritized research agenda on primary care strategies for minimizing the health impacts of heat and poor air quality events: protocol.Frontiers in climate · 2025Article
- Climate Change and Health Risk Perceptions of Arkansas Small Farmers through the Application of the Health Belief Model.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- The impact of climate change on the lives and livelihoods of readymade garment (RMG) workers: an exploratory study in selected readymade garment factories in Bangladesh.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Automation, Climate Change, and the Future of Farm Work: Cross-Disciplinary Lessons for Studying Dynamic Changes in Agricultural Health and Safety.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Expanding the Focus of Occupational Safety and Health: Lessons from a Series of Linked Scientific Meetings.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Racial Disparities in Climate Change-Related Health Effects in the United States.Current environmental health reports · 2022Review
- Climate change and emergency care in Africa: A scoping review.African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence · 2022Article
- Occupational heat strain in outdoor workers: A comprehensive review and meta-analysis.Temperature (Austin, Tex.) · 2022Review
- Twenty years of waterborne and related disease reports in Florida, USA.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2021Article
- Outcomes of a Climate Change Workshop at the 2020 African Conference on Emergency Medicine.African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence · 2021Article
- Climate Change Impacts and Workforce Development Needs in Federal Region X: A Qualitative Study of Occupational Health and Safety Professionals' Perceptions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Work Adaptations Insufficient to Address Growing Heat Risk for U.S. Agricultural Workers.Environmental research letters : ERL [Web site] · 2020Article
- Bibliometric analysis of peer-reviewed literature on climate change and human health with an emphasis on infectious diseases.Globalization and health · 2020Review
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Changes in atmosphere and temperature are affecting multiple environmental indicators from extreme heat events to global air quality. Workers will be uniquely affected by climate change, and the occupational impacts of major shifts in atmospheric and weather conditions need greater attention. Climate change-related exposures most likely to differentially affect workers in the USA and globally include heat, ozone, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, other chemicals, pathogenic microorganisms, vector-borne diseases, violence, and wildfires. Epidemiologic evidence documents a U-, J-, or V-shaped relationship between temperature and mortality. Whereas heat-related morbidity and mortality risks are most evident in agriculture, many other outdoor occupational sectors are also at risk, including construction, transportation, landscaping, firefighting, and other emergency response operations. The toxicity of chemicals change under hyperthermic conditions, particularly for pesticides and ozone. Combined with climate-related changes in chemical transport and distribution, these interactions represent unique health risks specifically to workers. Links between heat and interpersonal conflict including violence require attention because they pose threats to the safety of emergency medicine, peacekeeping and humanitarian relief, and public safety professionals. Recommendations for anticipating how US workers will be most susceptible to climate change include formal monitoring systems for agricultural workers; modeling scenarios focusing on occupational impacts of extreme climate events including floods, wildfires, and chemical spills; and national research agenda setting focusing on control and mitigation of occupational susceptibility to climate change.
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