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ArticleThe Lancet. Planetary health2021

Climate change and child health: a scoping review and an expanded conceptual framework.

Daniel Helldén, Camilla Andersson, Maria Nilsson, Kristie L Ebi, Peter Friberg, Tobias Alfvén

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Article in The Lancet. Planetary health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 107 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

107 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Daniel HelldénDepartment of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Electronic address: daniel.hellden@ki.se.
Camilla AnderssonDepartment of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Maria NilssonDepartment of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Kristie L EbiDepartment of Global Health, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Peter FribergSwedish Institute for Global Health Transformation, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Tobias AlfvénDepartment of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Sachs' Children and Youth Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Climate change can have detrimental effects on child health and wellbeing. Despite the imperative for a fuller understanding of how climate change affects child health and wellbeing, a systematic approach and focus solely on children (aged <18 years) has been lacking. In this Scoping Review, we did a literature search on the impacts of climate change on child health from January, 2000, to June, 2019. The included studies explicitly linked an alteration of an exposure to a risk factor for child health to climate change or climate variability. In total, 2970 original articles, reviews, and other documents were identified, of which 371 were analysed. Employing an expanded framework, our analysis showed that the effects of climate change on child health act through direct and indirect pathways, with implications for determinants of child health as well as morbidity and mortality from a range of diseases. This understanding can be further enhanced by using a broader range of research methods, studying overlooked populations and geographical regions, investigating the costs and benefits of mitigation and adaptation for child health, and considering the position of climate change and child health within the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Present and future generations of children bear and will continue to bear an unacceptably high disease burden from climate change.

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Child HealthClimate ChangeAir PollutionChildCommunicable DiseasesEnvironmental ExposureFood InsecurityHumansMental HealthRiskSocioeconomic FactorsWeather

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PMID33713617

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