Ambient Temperature And Health In China

Author : Hualiang Lin,Wenjun Ma,Qiyong Liu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789811325830

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Ambient Temperature and Health in China by Hualiang Lin,Wenjun Ma,Qiyong Liu Pdf

This book focuses on the Chinese health impact induced by ambient temperature variation, especially the epidemiology-based exposure-response relationship with the mortality and morbidity from respiratory, cardiovascular diseases, and mental health among Chinese population.A great number of epidemiological studies have reported that ambient temperature is closely associated with a wide range of health outcomes, such as mortality, cardiovascular and respiratory events, adverse birth outcome, and some infectious diseases, such as dengue fever, malaria. Although a number of epidemiological studies in western countries have evaluated the adverse health effects of ambient temperature, the exposure-response relationship from these countries cannot simply be applied to the Chinese population due to the large differences in temperature profile, exposure pattern, as well as the population vulnerability. This book will provide up-to-date estimates of the magnitude of adverse health effects of ambient temperature in the Chinese population. We hope to provide readers with a comprehensive and organized body of information in the area of Ambient Temperature and health.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9241550376

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WHO Housing and Health Guidelines by Anonim Pdf

Improved housing conditions can save lives, prevent disease, increase quality of life, reduce poverty, and help mitigate climate change. Housing is becoming increasingly important to health in light of urban growth, ageing populations and climate change. The WHO Housing and health guidelines bring together the most recent evidence to provide practical recommendations to reduce the health burden due to unsafe and substandard housing. Based on newly commissioned systematic reviews, the guidelines provide recommendations relevant to inadequate living space (crowding), low and high indoor temperatures, injury hazards in the home, and accessibility of housing for people with functional impairments. In addition, the guidelines identify and summarize existing WHO guidelines and recommendations related to housing, with respect to water quality, air quality, neighbourhood noise, asbestos, lead, tobacco smoke and radon. The guidelines take a comprehensive, intersectoral perspective on the issue of housing and health and highlight co-benefits of interventions addressing several risk factors at the same time. The WHO Housing and health guidelines aim at informing housing policies and regulations at the national, regional and local level and are further relevant in the daily activities of implementing actors who are directly involved in the construction, maintenance and demolition of housing in ways that influence human health and safety. The guidelines therefore emphasize the importance of collaboration between the health and other sectors and joint efforts across all government levels to promote healthy housing. The guidelines' implementation at country-level will in particular contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals on health (SDG 3) and sustainable cities (SDG 11). WHO will support Member States in adapting the guidelines to national contexts and priorities to ensure safe and healthy housing for all.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate,Committee on Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change Attribution
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309380973

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Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate,Committee on Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change Attribution Pdf

As climate has warmed over recent years, a new pattern of more frequent and more intense weather events has unfolded across the globe. Climate models simulate such changes in extreme events, and some of the reasons for the changes are well understood. Warming increases the likelihood of extremely hot days and nights, favors increased atmospheric moisture that may result in more frequent heavy rainfall and snowfall, and leads to evaporation that can exacerbate droughts. Even with evidence of these broad trends, scientists cautioned in the past that individual weather events couldn't be attributed to climate change. Now, with advances in understanding the climate science behind extreme events and the science of extreme event attribution, such blanket statements may not be accurate. The relatively young science of extreme event attribution seeks to tease out the influence of human-cause climate change from other factors, such as natural sources of variability like El Niño, as contributors to individual extreme events. Event attribution can answer questions about how much climate change influenced the probability or intensity of a specific type of weather event. As event attribution capabilities improve, they could help inform choices about assessing and managing risk, and in guiding climate adaptation strategies. This report examines the current state of science of extreme weather attribution, and identifies ways to move the science forward to improve attribution capabilities.

Author : Shaowei Wu,Yunquan Zhang,Kai Zhang
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782832540152

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Urban Environment and Children’s Health by Shaowei Wu,Yunquan Zhang,Kai Zhang Pdf

Author : Yunquan Zhang,Ruoyu Wang,Zhiming Yang,Ang Li
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782832537770

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Urban heat, air pollution, greenness and health by Yunquan Zhang,Ruoyu Wang,Zhiming Yang,Ang Li Pdf

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464802065

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Urban China by World Bank Pdf

In the last 30 years, China’s record economic growth lifted half a billion people out of poverty, with rapid urbanization providing abundant labor, cheap land, and good infrastructure. While China has avoided some of the common ills of urbanization, strains are showing as inefficient land development leads to urban sprawl and ghost towns, pollution threatens people’s health, and farmland and water resources are becoming scarce. With China’s urban population projected to rise to about one billion – or close to 70 percent of the country’s population – by 2030, China’s leaders are seeking a more coordinated urbanization process. Urban China is a joint research report by a team from the World Bank and the Development Research Center of China’s State Council which was established to address the challenges and opportunities of urbanization in China and to help China forge a new model of urbanization. The report takes as its point of departure the conviction that China's urbanization can become more efficient, inclusive, and sustainable. However, it stresses that achieving this vision will require strong support from both government and the markets for policy reforms in a number of area. The report proposes six main areas for reform: first, amending land management institutions to foster more efficient land use, denser cities, modernized agriculture, and more equitable wealth distribution; second, adjusting the hukou household registration system to increase labor mobility and provide urban migrant workers equal access to a common standard of public services; third, placing urban finances on a more sustainable footing while fostering financial discipline among local governments; fourth, improving urban planning to enhance connectivity and encourage scale and agglomeration economies; fifth, reducing environmental pressures through more efficient resource management; and sixth, improving governance at the local level.

Author : Emily Ying Yang Chan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780429763601

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Climate Change and Urban Health by Emily Ying Yang Chan Pdf

This book provides a theoretical framework and related technical skills for investigating climate change and its public health consequences and responses with a focus on urban settings, and in particular Hong Kong, a subtropical metropolis in Asia. Specifically, the book examines the impact of climate change on health in terms of mortality, hospital admissions and help-seeking, as well as key response strategies of adaptation and mitigation. Many existing books tend to consider the relationship of climate change and public health as two connected issues divided into various discrete topics. Conversely, this book explicitly applies public health concepts to study the human impact of climate change, for example, by conceptualising climate change impact and its alleviation, mitigation and adaptation in a public health framework. Overall, this volume summarises what is known about climate change and health and ignites further debates in the area, especially for urban subtropical communities from within a wider global perspective. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental health, public health, climate change, urban studies and Asian studies.

Author : Meng Gao,Zifa Wang,Gregory Carmichael
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780128203958

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Air Pollution, Climate, and Health by Meng Gao,Zifa Wang,Gregory Carmichael Pdf

Air Pollution, Climate and Health integrates the current understanding of the issues of air pollution, climate change and human health. The book provides a comprehensive overview of these issues to help readers gain a better understanding of how they interact and impact air quality and public health. Regional examples from across the globe include issues related to PM 2.5, haze, winter pollution, heat related mortality and aerosols. These issues are addressed utilizing current research and laboratory-based, observation-based, and modeling-based analysis. This is an essential resource for all professionals investigating the impacts of climate change or air pollution on human health. Provides a comprehensive understanding of the interactions between climate change, air quality and human health Includes evidence-based findings to help clarify the mechanisms on how air pollution impacts climate and how a changing climate is impacting those pollutants Covers a number of pollution sources and products impacting climate change, including energy, haze, particulate matter, aerosols, PM 2.5 and transport

Author : Irfan Ullah,Ashfaq Ahmad Shah,Bilal,Rocky J. Dwyer
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832541579

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Nexus Between Innovations, Environmental Challenges and Labor Mobility by Irfan Ullah,Ashfaq Ahmad Shah,Bilal,Rocky J. Dwyer Pdf

Theoretical arguments associate labor migration and regional innovation capacity are based on technological innovation and knowledge diffusion that stimulate productivity increase in firms, institutions and regions. Labor mobility may contribute efficiently in the knowledge spillover and diffusion and because migrants can utilizes the knowledge and skill they gain from parental institutions which exploit in the host country. The migrated skill worker increase the knowledge accumulation and spillover which leads to increase the productivity of firm, institutions and region. Human capital migration is essential for knowledge diffusion because it enables the transfer of tacit information between businesses or institutions, enhancing productivity. In this context of externalities generation, skilled labor mobility is an important mechanism for the interregional transfer of technological knowledge diffusion.

Author : Wilhelm Kirch,B. Menne,R. Bertollini
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783540288626

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Extreme Weather Events and Public Health Responses by Wilhelm Kirch,B. Menne,R. Bertollini Pdf

In 2004, the WHO Regional Office for Europe and the European Environment Agency organized a meeting to exchange information and develop recommendations on public health and environmental responses to weather and climate extremes. This book reflects a collection of case studies and experiences of experts, ministries and international organizations.

Author : Kylienne A. Clark,Travis R. Shaul,Brian H. Lower
Publisher : The Ohio State University
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Environmental ScienceBites by Kylienne A. Clark,Travis R. Shaul,Brian H. Lower Pdf

This book was written by undergraduate students at The Ohio State University (OSU) who were enrolled in the class Introduction to Environmental Science. The chapters describe some of Earth's major environmental challenges and discuss ways that humans are using cutting-edge science and engineering to provide sustainable solutions to these problems. Topics are as diverse as the students, who represent virtually every department, school and college at OSU. The environmental issue that is described in each chapter is particularly important to the author, who hopes that their story will serve as inspiration to protect Earth for all life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Disaster medicine
ISBN : OCLC:1059231774

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Extreme Heat Events Guidelines, Technical Guide for Health Care Workers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Suleman Sarwar,Dalia Streimikiene,Rida Waheed,Abdul Rauf
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782832530276

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Public health, governance, green environment and economy by Suleman Sarwar,Dalia Streimikiene,Rida Waheed,Abdul Rauf Pdf

Author : Qiuhong Tang,Quansheng Ge
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811041990

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Atlas of Environmental Risks Facing China Under Climate Change by Qiuhong Tang,Quansheng Ge Pdf

This atlas provides the most comprehensive and accurate overview of environmental risks relating to climate change vulnerability and adaptation in China. It addresses the agricultural, ecosystem and heat wave health risk posed by climate change and presents the projected environmental risks in the 21st century under climate change and socioeconomic scenarios. The detailed and concise risk assessments are mapped in grid units, allowing easy environmental risk assessment for specific locations. The atlas contributes significantly to the knowledge base for climate change adaptation in China and is a valuable resource for students and professionals in the fields of geographic sciences and climate change.

Author : Yunquan Zhang,Yuewei Liu,Zhiwei Xu,Shengzhi Sun
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782832510797

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Air Quality, Climate and Public Health by Yunquan Zhang,Yuewei Liu,Zhiwei Xu,Shengzhi Sun Pdf