ReviewSocial science & medicine (1982)2019
The (in)visible health risks of climate change.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 67 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Exploring climate-related health risks and behaviors among vulnerable populations in the eastern Mediterranean: the cases of Jewish and Bedouin Negev desert residents.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- "Vulnerabilities and compound risks of escalating climate disasters in the Brazilian Amazon".Nature communications · 2025Article
- Disease burden attributable to high temperature between 1990 and 2021 in South Asia and Southeast Asia, with projections to 2045.Tropical medicine and health · 2025Article
- Future Issues in Global Health: Challenges and Conundrums.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
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- Gender differences in Leptospira exposure risk, perceptions of disease severity, and high-risk behaviours in Salvador, Brazil: A cross-sectional study.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- New York State Climate Impacts Assessment Chapter 07: Human Health and Safety.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2024Review
- The Impact of Climate Change on the Mental Health of Populations at Disproportionate Risk of Health Impacts and Inequities: A Rapid Scoping Review of Reviews.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Gender differences in the perception of leptospirosis severity, behaviours, andmedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Climate hazards in Latin American cities: Understanding the role of the social and built environments and barriers to adaptation action.Climate risk management · 2024Article
- Impact of climate change on public health in Brazil.Public health challenges · 2023Article
- Invisibility in global health: A case for disturbing bioethical frameworks.Wellcome open research · 2023Article
- Mental Health Impacts of Climate Change Among Vulnerable Populations Globally: An Integrative Review.Annals of global health · 2023Review
- Why Is the Australian Health Sector So Far behind in Practising Climate-Related Disclosures?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
- Swiss Cohort & Biobank - The White Paper.Public health reviews · 2022Article
- Health Care in a Changing Climate: A Review of Climate Change Laws and National Adaptation Plans in Latin America.Health and human rights · 2021Review
- Correlates of Levels of Willingness to Engage in Climate Change Actions in the United States.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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9 authors at 9 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
This paper scrutinizes the assertion that knowledge gaps concerning health risks from climate change are unjust, and must be addressed, because they hinder evidence-led interventions to protect vulnerable populations. First, we construct a taxonomy of six inter-related forms of invisibility (social marginalization, forced invisibility by migrants, spatial marginalization, neglected diseases, mental health, uneven climatic monitoring and forecasting) which underlie systematic biases in current understanding of these risks in Latin America, and advocate an approach to climate-health research that draws on intersectionality theory to address these inter-relations. We propose that these invisibilities should be understood as outcomes of structural imbalances in power and resources rather than as haphazard blindspots in scientific and state knowledge. Our thesis, drawing on theories of governmentality, is that context-dependent tensions condition whether or not benefits of making vulnerable populations legible to the state outweigh costs. To be seen is to be politically counted and eligible for rights, yet evidence demonstrates the perils of visibility to disempowered people. For example, flood-relief efforts in remote Amazonia expose marginalized urban river-dwellers to the traumatic prospect of forced relocation and social and economic upheaval. Finally, drawing on research on citizenship in post-colonial settings, we conceptualize climate change as an 'open moment' of political rupture, and propose strategies of social accountability, empowerment and trans-disciplinary research which encourage the marginalized to reach out for greater power. These achievements could reduce drawbacks of state legibility and facilitate socially-just governmental action on climate change adaptation that promotes health for all.
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