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Reimagining the Role of Health Departments and Their Partners in Addressing Climate Change: Revising the Building Resilience against Climate Effects (BRACE) Framework

Public health departments have important roles to play in addressing the local health impacts of climate change, yet are often not well prepared to do so. The Climate and Health Program (CHP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created the Building Resilience Against Climate Effe...

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Autores principales: Lemon, Stephenie C., Joseph, Heather A., Williams, Samantha, Brown, Claudia, Aytur, Semra, Catalano, Katherine, Chacker, Stacey, Goins, Karin V., Rudolph, Linda, Whitehead, Sandra, Zimmerman, Sara, Schramm, Paul J.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10419192/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37568988
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20156447
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author Lemon, Stephenie C.
Joseph, Heather A.
Williams, Samantha
Brown, Claudia
Aytur, Semra
Catalano, Katherine
Chacker, Stacey
Goins, Karin V.
Rudolph, Linda
Whitehead, Sandra
Zimmerman, Sara
Schramm, Paul J.
author_facet Lemon, Stephenie C.
Joseph, Heather A.
Williams, Samantha
Brown, Claudia
Aytur, Semra
Catalano, Katherine
Chacker, Stacey
Goins, Karin V.
Rudolph, Linda
Whitehead, Sandra
Zimmerman, Sara
Schramm, Paul J.
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description Public health departments have important roles to play in addressing the local health impacts of climate change, yet are often not well prepared to do so. The Climate and Health Program (CHP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created the Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE) framework in 2012 as a five-step planning framework to support public health departments and their partners to respond to the health impacts of climate change. CHP has initiated a process to revise the framework to address learnings from a decade of experience with BRACE and advances in the science and practice of addressing climate and health. The aim of this manuscript is to describe the methodology for revising the BRACE framework and the expected outputs of this process. Development of the revised framework and associated guidance and tools will be guided by a multi-sector expert panel, and finalization will be informed by usability testing. Planned revisions to BRACE will (1) be consistent with the vision of Public Health 3.0 and position health departments as “chief health strategists” in their communities, who are responsible for facilitating the establishment and maintenance of cross-sector collaborations with community organizations, other partners, and other government agencies to address local climate impacts and prevent further harm to historically underserved communities; (2) place health equity as a central, guiding tenet; (3) incorporate greenhouse gas mitigation strategies, in addition to its previous focus on climate adaptation; and (4) feature a new set of tools to support BRACE implementation among a diverse set of users. The revised BRACE framework and the associated tools will support public health departments and their partners as they strive to prevent and reduce the negative health impacts of climate change for everyone, while focusing on improving health equity.
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spelling pubmed-104191922023-08-12 Reimagining the Role of Health Departments and Their Partners in Addressing Climate Change: Revising the Building Resilience against Climate Effects (BRACE) Framework Lemon, Stephenie C. Joseph, Heather A. Williams, Samantha Brown, Claudia Aytur, Semra Catalano, Katherine Chacker, Stacey Goins, Karin V. Rudolph, Linda Whitehead, Sandra Zimmerman, Sara Schramm, Paul J. Int J Environ Res Public Health Study Protocol Public health departments have important roles to play in addressing the local health impacts of climate change, yet are often not well prepared to do so. The Climate and Health Program (CHP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created the Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE) framework in 2012 as a five-step planning framework to support public health departments and their partners to respond to the health impacts of climate change. CHP has initiated a process to revise the framework to address learnings from a decade of experience with BRACE and advances in the science and practice of addressing climate and health. The aim of this manuscript is to describe the methodology for revising the BRACE framework and the expected outputs of this process. Development of the revised framework and associated guidance and tools will be guided by a multi-sector expert panel, and finalization will be informed by usability testing. Planned revisions to BRACE will (1) be consistent with the vision of Public Health 3.0 and position health departments as “chief health strategists” in their communities, who are responsible for facilitating the establishment and maintenance of cross-sector collaborations with community organizations, other partners, and other government agencies to address local climate impacts and prevent further harm to historically underserved communities; (2) place health equity as a central, guiding tenet; (3) incorporate greenhouse gas mitigation strategies, in addition to its previous focus on climate adaptation; and (4) feature a new set of tools to support BRACE implementation among a diverse set of users. The revised BRACE framework and the associated tools will support public health departments and their partners as they strive to prevent and reduce the negative health impacts of climate change for everyone, while focusing on improving health equity. MDPI 2023-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10419192/ /pubmed/37568988 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20156447 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Rudolph, Linda
Whitehead, Sandra
Zimmerman, Sara
Schramm, Paul J.
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