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Scoping the proximal and distal dimensions of climate change on health and wellbeing
The impacts of climate on health and wellbeing occur in time and space and through a range of indirect, complicated mechanisms. This diversity of pathways has major implications for national public health planning and influence on interventions that might help to mitigate and adapt to rapidly changi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5773875/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29219099 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-017-0329-y |
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author | Morris, George Paterson Reis, Stefan Beck, Sheila Anne Fleming, Lora Elderkin Adger, William Neil Benton, Timothy Guy Depledge, Michael Harold |
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description | The impacts of climate on health and wellbeing occur in time and space and through a range of indirect, complicated mechanisms. This diversity of pathways has major implications for national public health planning and influence on interventions that might help to mitigate and adapt to rapidly changing environmental conditions, nationally and internationally. This paper draws upon evidence from public health and adverse impact studies across climate science, hydrology, agriculture, public health, and the social sciences. It presents a conceptual model to support decision-making by recognizing both the proximal and distal pathways from climate-induced environmental change to national health and wellbeing. The proximal and distal pathways associated with food security, migration and mobility illustrate the diverse climate change influences in different geographic locations over different timescales. We argue that greater realization and articulation of proximal and distal pathways should radically alter how climate change is addressed as a national and international public health challenge. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12940-017-0329-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-57738752018-01-26 Scoping the proximal and distal dimensions of climate change on health and wellbeing Morris, George Paterson Reis, Stefan Beck, Sheila Anne Fleming, Lora Elderkin Adger, William Neil Benton, Timothy Guy Depledge, Michael Harold Environ Health Review The impacts of climate on health and wellbeing occur in time and space and through a range of indirect, complicated mechanisms. This diversity of pathways has major implications for national public health planning and influence on interventions that might help to mitigate and adapt to rapidly changing environmental conditions, nationally and internationally. This paper draws upon evidence from public health and adverse impact studies across climate science, hydrology, agriculture, public health, and the social sciences. It presents a conceptual model to support decision-making by recognizing both the proximal and distal pathways from climate-induced environmental change to national health and wellbeing. The proximal and distal pathways associated with food security, migration and mobility illustrate the diverse climate change influences in different geographic locations over different timescales. We argue that greater realization and articulation of proximal and distal pathways should radically alter how climate change is addressed as a national and international public health challenge. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12940-017-0329-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2017-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5773875/ /pubmed/29219099 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-017-0329-y Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Review Morris, George Paterson Reis, Stefan Beck, Sheila Anne Fleming, Lora Elderkin Adger, William Neil Benton, Timothy Guy Depledge, Michael Harold Scoping the proximal and distal dimensions of climate change on health and wellbeing |
title | Scoping the proximal and distal dimensions of climate change on health and wellbeing |
title_full | Scoping the proximal and distal dimensions of climate change on health and wellbeing |
title_fullStr | Scoping the proximal and distal dimensions of climate change on health and wellbeing |
title_full_unstemmed | Scoping the proximal and distal dimensions of climate change on health and wellbeing |
title_short | Scoping the proximal and distal dimensions of climate change on health and wellbeing |
title_sort | scoping the proximal and distal dimensions of climate change on health and wellbeing |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5773875/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29219099 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-017-0329-y |
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