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Nurses’ perceptions, attitudes, and perspectives in relation to climate change and sustainable healthcare practices: A systematic review 护士对气候变化和可持续医疗实践的看法、态度和观点:系统综述。
The journal of climate change and health Pub Date : 2023-12-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100290
Ebenezer Akore Yeboah , Amanda Rodrigues Amorim Adegboye , Rosie Kneafsey
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“Man is a Dwarf Before Nature” "人类在自然面前是渺小的
The journal of climate change and health Pub Date : 2023-11-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100287
Earl Stewart
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Impact of climate change on surgery: A scoping review to define existing knowledge and identify gaps 气候变化对外科手术的影响:界定现有知识并找出差距的范围审查
The journal of climate change and health Pub Date : 2023-11-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100285
Tina Bharani , Rebecca Achey , Harris Jamal , Alexis Cherry , Malcolm K. Robinson , Guy J. Maddern , Deirdre K Tobias , Divyansh Agarwal
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Neurology and climate change: What we know and where we are going 神经学与气候变化:我们所知道的和我们的未来
The journal of climate change and health Pub Date : 2023-11-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100284
Jonathan Doan , Andrew Dhawan
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Rethinking ecoanxiety through environmental moral distress: an ethics reflection 通过环境道德困扰反思生态焦虑:伦理学反思
The journal of climate change and health Pub Date : 2023-11-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100283
Nicola Banwell , Nadja Eggert
{"title":"Rethinking ecoanxiety through environmental moral distress: an ethics reflection","authors":"Nicola Banwell ,&nbsp;Nadja Eggert","doi":"10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100283","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100283","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Humanity is currently confronted with simultaneous complex environmental crises of unprecedented scale. These include, but are not limited to, the ongoing sixth mass extinction and the depletion of biodiversity, and ongoing anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions which are causing changes in the climate that humanity has never before witnessed. As these ecological crises continue to progress, there is increasing recognition of the impact this has on mental health. Within this context, the notion of ecoanxiety has gained traction, primarily from the perspective of psychology, with the view to elevate suffering. However, in our view, the risk of considering ecoanxiety, and other ecological emotions, solely from a medicalized perspective as a mental disorder is that it places too much responsibility on individuals, decontextualizes ecological emotions from their social and political settings, and detaches these emotions from their ethical and moral dimensions. This article proposes to reconsider ecological emotions from the perspective of moral distress. Environmental moral distress resituates ecological emotions within their social and political contexts, and sheds light on their entanglement with ethical realms that medicalized conceptions of ecoanxiety fail to recognize. We argue that responding to environmental moral distress requires a shift to an ethics of care and ecofeminist paradigm which enables us to consider ecological emotions as contextualized indicators of the experience of morally questionable actions. This approach opens the door to collective responses aiming to empower and build moral agency in the face of the shared moral and political struggles which characterize the ecological crisis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":75054,"journal":{"name":"The journal of climate change and health","volume":"15 ","pages":"Article 100283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667278223000822/pdfft?md5=8e608bd7279dc0004a866af052d8b604&pid=1-s2.0-S2667278223000822-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135614497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Climate-health tele-education as a force multiplier: A train-the-trainer ECHO course series 作为力量倍增器的气候-健康远程教育:ECHO培训师培训系列课程
The journal of climate change and health Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100282
Stefan Wheat , Joanna Katzman , David Herring , Laura Tomedi , Natasha Sood , Cecilia Sorensen
{"title":"Climate-health tele-education as a force multiplier: A train-the-trainer ECHO course series","authors":"Stefan Wheat ,&nbsp;Joanna Katzman ,&nbsp;David Herring ,&nbsp;Laura Tomedi ,&nbsp;Natasha Sood ,&nbsp;Cecilia Sorensen","doi":"10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100282","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>Climate change is a health emergency and healthcare professionals represent critical and trusted points of contact between communities and the health effects of climate change.  However, healthcare professionals require training in the complex dynamics governing the interaction between climate and health as this education is not a part of traditional healthcare oriented curricula.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>From February-April 2022, a free, live-virtual, 8-session climate and health course was offered in a collaboration between the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE), Project ECHO and the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The goal of the course was to increase health professionals’ knowledge, self-efficacy, and communication skills related to the climate crisis. Participants were invited to complete pre-, post- and 6-month post surveys to assess their readiness to lead climate and health education and programmatic development at their own institutions or within their own communities.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Between February-April 2022, 1,047 unique attendees participated in the Climate and Health Responder ECHO series. The primary outcome measured of communication regarding climate change trended toward increased communication. Survey respondents reported increased motivation to teach climate and health topics and confidence in training others following completion of the course.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Live-virtual, evidence, and competency-based courses have the potential to change health professional behaviors towards addressing the climate impacts on health and equip health professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to implement climate and health programs in their own work in order to scale-up climate and health knowledge, self-efficacy, and communication skills.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":75054,"journal":{"name":"The journal of climate change and health","volume":"14 ","pages":"Article 100282"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667278223000810/pdfft?md5=871bd9066381cbd8842858eeb8c4bf17&pid=1-s2.0-S2667278223000810-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134657589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Environmental health injustice and culturally appropriate opportunities in remote Australia 澳大利亚偏远地区的环境卫生不公正和文化上适当的机会
The journal of climate change and health Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100281
Supriya Mathew , Gavin Pereira , Kerstin K Zander , Rishu Thakur , Linda Ford
{"title":"Environmental health injustice and culturally appropriate opportunities in remote Australia","authors":"Supriya Mathew ,&nbsp;Gavin Pereira ,&nbsp;Kerstin K Zander ,&nbsp;Rishu Thakur ,&nbsp;Linda Ford","doi":"10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100281","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100281","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>First Nations people in remote Australia hold important historical and local knowledge on how to respond effectively to environmental changes and extreme environmental conditions. However, there has been comparatively little attention paid to the use of First Nations people's environmental knowledge to devise environmental health responses or the effects of various environmental factors on remote residents’ health and well-being. The report explores environmental health injustice among First Nations people living in remote Australia caused by inadequate engagement of remote community members and remote health professionals in environmental health decision-making, a lack of continuous environmental monitoring in remote locations and reliance on health outcome data sets that do not reflect the actual environmental health effects on remote residents. Such environmental health injustice affects people's right to have information on the constituents of the environment they interact with daily and contributes to the lost opportunity to capitalize on local cultural knowledge to create successful environmental health responses for remote residents of Australia.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":75054,"journal":{"name":"The journal of climate change and health","volume":"14 ","pages":"Article 100281"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667278223000809/pdfft?md5=7eb2b4bab98a8db12dcb12e5e6465746&pid=1-s2.0-S2667278223000809-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136010078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Human health and climate change – an evolving discourse: A bibliometric citation analysis of top-cited articles within health sciences databases 人类健康和气候变化——一个不断发展的话语:健康科学数据库中被引用最多的文章的文献计量引文分析
The journal of climate change and health Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100272
Maya R. Kolsky , Ehud Grossman , Yuval Levy , Eyal Klang
{"title":"Human health and climate change – an evolving discourse: A bibliometric citation analysis of top-cited articles within health sciences databases","authors":"Maya R. Kolsky ,&nbsp;Ehud Grossman ,&nbsp;Yuval Levy ,&nbsp;Eyal Klang","doi":"10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100272","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>The body of scientific literature on climate change and human health has exponentially grown over the past two decades, outlining a diverse list of health risks, vulnerable populations, protocols, and public policy frameworks. However, not all of these topics resonated equally among the health sciences community. This bibliometric citation analysis sets out to explore the priorities and interests reflected in the top cited articles on climate change and human health.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>We searched the PubMed database for all publications containing the term \"climate change\" in either title, abstract, or keywords, published after January 1st, 2009. The NCBI Entrez API was used to collect citation counts for the retrieved articles. The search yielded 55,590 articles. The top 200 cited publications were manually analyzed and classified according to topic and type of article.</p></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><p>: Out of the 200 top-cited articles containing “Climate change” in either the title, abstract, or keywords, 40 articles engaged directly with human health or food security, receiving a total of 13,857 citations, with a range of 233–1865 citations (mean = 407.5, median = 316). Only 11 of the 40 articles were original studies. Infectious diseases were discussed in 24 of the 40 articles - 23 discuss vector-borne diseases. In comparison, only 11 refer to temperature extremes, 10 discuss nutritional insecurity and only 3 discuss migration and climate refugees. 50.9 % of all citations were published in either “Science” or “The Lancet”.</p></div><div><h3>Interpretation</h3><p>While climate change and human health had captured the attention of public policymakers, the consistent selection of resources and topics – favoring the Lancet commissions over environmental health publications and the IPCC, citing infectious diseases more frequently than mental health, air pollution, and extreme weather, and the overall relatively low number of citations – could indicate a low level of interest amongst the broader health sciences community.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":75054,"journal":{"name":"The journal of climate change and health","volume":"14 ","pages":"Article 100272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667278223000718/pdfft?md5=32dd43f49649e830b0f55609058fbce4&pid=1-s2.0-S2667278223000718-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91987149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Investigating climate change-related environmental and structural determinants of health: A mixed methods pilot study with first-generation migrants from Latin America to metro-Atlanta 调查与气候变化有关的健康的环境和结构决定因素:对从拉丁美洲到亚特兰大大都会的第一代移民进行的混合方法试点研究
The journal of climate change and health Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100275
Morgan Lane , Emaline Laney , Alexis Nkusi , Clary Herrera , Amitha Sampath , Uriel Kitron , Jessica K. Fairley , Cassandra White , Rebecca Philipsborn
{"title":"Investigating climate change-related environmental and structural determinants of health: A mixed methods pilot study with first-generation migrants from Latin America to metro-Atlanta","authors":"Morgan Lane ,&nbsp;Emaline Laney ,&nbsp;Alexis Nkusi ,&nbsp;Clary Herrera ,&nbsp;Amitha Sampath ,&nbsp;Uriel Kitron ,&nbsp;Jessica K. Fairley ,&nbsp;Cassandra White ,&nbsp;Rebecca Philipsborn","doi":"10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100275","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Migration from Latin America to the US has been increasing over the past few decades. Migrants may experience structural and environmental vulnerabilities that increase their risk for negative impacts of climate change upon resettlement. This pilot study examined these determinants of health for Latin American immigrants in Atlanta.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Between May and December 2021, Latin American immigrants were recruited to complete a questionnaire, with a subset completing an in-depth interview. Questionnaire results were analyzed descriptively, and interview responses were analyzed using grounded theory analysis.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Fifty-four participants from 11 countries were enrolled and were majority female (87 %), ranging in age from 20 to 72. Length of time in the US varied with 48 % living here for over 15 years. Challenges with structural and environmental determinants of health included running out of medication (54 % of those on daily medication) or food (37 %), household pests (40 %), trouble paying utility bills (31 %), mold (17 %), and no air conditioning (10 %). Only 33 % stated they could easily satisfy their material needs. Fifty-four percent had an emergency plan, while 65 % knew how to find out about emergency alerts. Qualitative analysis identified language barriers, access to healthcare, and poor mental health as common challenges. Social support was a potential factor of resilience.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Our findings underscore the influence of social and environmental determinants of health on climate resilience in Atlanta-area immigrants and may inform migrant-focused organizations in providing resources to this community and supporting climate adaptation to safeguard health in this at-risk population.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":75054,"journal":{"name":"The journal of climate change and health","volume":"14 ","pages":"Article 100275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667278223000743/pdfft?md5=335394aefd7d1b879e1f3f8be0a9eb99&pid=1-s2.0-S2667278223000743-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91987150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Carbon footprint of general practice: Retrospective case study of GP offices in a rural department of France 一般实践的碳足迹:法国农村部门全科医生办公室的回顾性案例研究
The journal of climate change and health Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100273
Claire Houziel , Emmanuel Prothon , Albert Trinh-Duc
{"title":"Carbon footprint of general practice: Retrospective case study of GP offices in a rural department of France","authors":"Claire Houziel ,&nbsp;Emmanuel Prothon ,&nbsp;Albert Trinh-Duc","doi":"10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joclim.2023.100273","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context</h3><p>The medical sector has a significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions which, in turn, impacts global health. In the context of the climate emergency, measures should be adopted to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the health care sector. So far, few regulations have been implemented for general practice facilities, despite the fact that the potential impact of general practice is large, due to the size of this sector. This study seeks to establish the carbon footprint of general practices in a rural French department, and to identify the main vectors of CO<sub>2</sub> emissions.</p></div><div><h3>Materials and Methods</h3><p>Three general practitioners’ offices located in Lot-et-Garonne agreed to participate in this study. This retrospective study extrapolated the carbon footprint of the practices during 2020 using the ADEME BEGES method and Life Cycle Assessment. We collected data and accounting reports directly from practices regarding different potential CO<sub>2</sub> emission sources (electricity, water, transport, waste, digital activities, stationery, and medical equipment).</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Medical practices emitted an average of 39.8t of CO<sub>2</sub> equivalent in 2020, i.e. 1.5 kg of CO<sub>2</sub>eq per consultation. Transportation was the main vector of emissions with 95 % of the total (83 % via patient transportation and 12 % via physician transportation), followed by medical equipment (3 %), electricity consumption (1.1 %), office supplies (0.7 %), digital activities (0.1 %), then water and waste (both, &lt; 0.1 %).</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>General Practice generates a significant amount of CO<sub>2</sub> and, therefore, requires specific actions to be implemented to reduce its impact on the environment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":75054,"journal":{"name":"The journal of climate change and health","volume":"14 ","pages":"Article 100273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266727822300072X/pdfft?md5=4162d665038e9b99436144a7ef614fed&pid=1-s2.0-S266727822300072X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92047511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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