ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Climate Solutions Double as Health Interventions.
Review in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.
- The effect of climate mitigation and adaptation policies on health and health inequalities: a systematic review.The Lancet. Planetary health · 2025Pooled it
- Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance recommendations toward environmentally sustainable cardiovascular magnetic resonance.Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance · 2025Guideline
- Trends and Patterns in Wealth Index Assets: Observations From 68 Countries.Global health, science and practice · 2026Article
- Imperative for a health-centred focus on climate change in radiology.Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology · 2026Review
- Effectiveness of Interventions to Reduce Carbon-Emissions Within Secondary Healthcare: Systematic Review and Evidence and Gap Map.Campbell systematic reviews · 2025Review
- Transgression of planetary boundaries and the effects on child health through an infectious diseases lens.Current opinion in pediatrics · 2025Review
- Balancing short-term and long-term climate-health equity strategies: a framework for supporting faster, fairer joint action on climate change and health equity.BMJ global health · 2025Review
- Heat Illness and Extreme Weather Health Literacy: Communication Preferences and Effectiveness for Patients Living in Climate-Change-Vulnerable Communities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Infectious disease responses to human climate change adaptations.Global change biology · 2024Review
- Optimal decision-making in relieving global high temperature-related disease burden by data-driven simulation.Infectious Disease Modelling · 2024Article
- Environmental Sustainability and MRI: Challenges, Opportunities, and a Call for Action.Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI · 2024Review
- Cognitive Interview Validation of a Novel Household Hazard Vulnerability Assessment Instrument.Western journal of nursing research · 2024Article
- From Health-in-All-Policies to Climate-in-All-Policies: Using the Synergies between Health Promotion and Climate Protection to Take Action.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Review
- The burden of iodine deficiency.Archives of medical science : AMS · 2024Article
- A scoping review of the health co-benefits of climate mitigation strategies in South America.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2023Article
- Proposed solutions to anthropogenic climate change: A systematic literature review and a new way forward.Heliyon · 2023Article
- The Causes and Role of Antinatalism in Poland in the Context of Climate Change, Obstetric Care, and Mental Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Public Health Crisis Is Planetary-and Nursing Is Crucial to Addressing It.American journal of public health · 2022Article
- Communication research to improve engagement with climate change and human health: A review.Frontiers in public health · 2022Review
- Advancing and integrating climate and health policy in the United States: Insights from national policy stakeholders.The journal of climate change and healthArticle
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The climate crisis threatens to exacerbate numerous climate-sensitive health risks, including heatwave mortality, malnutrition from reduced crop yields, water- and vector-borne infectious diseases, and respiratory illness from smog, ozone, allergenic pollen, and wildfires. Recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stress the urgent need for action to mitigate climate change, underscoring the need for more scientific assessment of the benefits of climate action for health and wellbeing. Project Drawdown has analyzed more than 80 solutions to address climate change, building on existing technologies and practices, that could be scaled to collectively limit warming to between 1.5° and 2 °C above preindustrial levels. The solutions span nine major sectors and are aggregated into three groups: reducing the sources of emissions, maintaining and enhancing carbon sinks, and addressing social inequities. Here we present an overview of how climate solutions in these three areas can benefit human health through improved air quality, increased physical activity, healthier diets, reduced risk of infectious disease, and improved sexual and reproductive health, and universal education. We find that the health benefits of a low-carbon society are more substantial and more numerous than previously realized and should be central to policies addressing climate change. Much of the existing literature focuses on health effects in high-income countries, however, and more research is needed on health and equity implications of climate solutions, especially in the Global South. We conclude that adding the myriad health benefits across multiple climate change solutions can likely add impetus to move climate policies faster and further.
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