ReviewLancet (London, England)2023
Envisioning environmental equity: climate change, health, and racial justice.
Review in Lancet (London, England), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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69 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Impacts of Climate Change and Related Weather Events on the Health and Wellbeing of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities: A Systematic Review.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Pooled it
- Climate justice, mobility justice, and health inequities among racialized communities in Canada: a scoping review.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2026Pooled it
- The impact of climate change on mental health in vulnerable groups: a systematic review.BMC psychology · 2025Pooled it
- The effect of climate mitigation and adaptation policies on health and health inequalities: a systematic review.The Lancet. Planetary health · 2025Pooled it
- Climate change effects on ecosystem services: Disentangling drivers of mixed responses.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
- Climate Change and Mental Health Nexus in National Climate Policy-Gaps and Challenges.Annals of global health · 2025Pooled it
- Climate change and health system preparedness: A scoping review of adaptation plans in Central America and the Caribbean.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2026Review
- Climate Justice and One Health Adaptation Policies in Public Health and Disaster Medicine.Public health challenges · 2026Review
- Equipping perinatal teams to practice climate-smart healthcare.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2026Review
- [Sustainable waste management in the operating room : Recycling of waste and use of reusable materials].Chirurgie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Imperative for a health-centred focus on climate change in radiology.Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology · 2026Review
- Climate Change and Health Inequities: Evidence and Action for Vulnerable Populations.American journal of public health · 2026Article
- Overlooked considerations in prescribing green and blue infrastructure solutions for urban environments.Innovation (Cambridge (Mass.)) · 2026Review
- Disparate Climate Change Health Costs: The Emissions, Vulnerability, and Readiness Nexus.EcoHealth · 2026Article
- Contributions of decision science to ethical priority-setting in climate and health research.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2026Article
- Mapping the expressions and impacts of racism on health in Brazil: a scoping review.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2026Review
- Expert perspectives on exposure-response functions for urban health policy: Lessons from a UBDPolicy workshop.Environmental research · 2026Review
- Applying Community Engagement Methods to Facilitate Global Co‑Learning among Indigenous Communities.Annals of global health · 2026Article
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- Health systems collaboration can strengthen climate change resilience: Insights from Indigenous knowledges in the Latin American region.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
9 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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14 authors.
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Abstract
Climate change has a broad range of health impacts and tackling climate change could be the greatest opportunity for improving global health this century. Yet conversations on climate change and health are often incomplete, giving little attention to structural discrimination and the need for racial justice. Racism kills, and climate change kills. Together, racism and climate change interact and have disproportionate effects on the lives of minoritised people both within countries and between the Global North and the Global South. This paper has three main aims. First, to survey the literature on the unequal health impacts of climate change due to racism, xenophobia, and discrimination through a scoping review. We found that racially minoritised groups, migrants, and Indigenous communities face a disproportionate burden of illness and mortality due to climate change in different contexts. Second, this paper aims to highlight inequalities in responsibility for climate change and the effects thereof. A geographical visualisation of responsibility for climate change and projected mortality and disease risk attributable to climate change per 100 000 people in 2050 was conducted. These maps visualise the disproportionate burden of illness and mortality due to climate change faced by the Global South. Our third aim is to highlight the pathways through which climate change, discrimination, and health interact in most affected areas. Case studies, testimony, and policy analysis drawn from multidisciplinary perspectives are presented throughout the paper to elucidate these pathways. The health community must urgently examine and repair the structural discrimination that drives the unequal impacts of climate change to achieve rapid and equitable action.
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