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The Role of Behavioral Medicine in Addressing Climate Change-Related Health Inequities

Climate change is the greatest threat to global health in human history. It has been declared a public health emergency by the World Health Organization and leading researchers from academic institutions around the globe. Structural racism disproportionately exposes communities targeted for marginal...

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Autores principales: Nogueira, Leticia, White, Kristi E, Bell, Brooke, Alegria, Katie E, Bennett, Gary, Edmondson, Donald, Epel, Elissa, Holman, E Alison, Kronish, Ian M, Thayer, Julian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9132203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35613004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibac005
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author Nogueira, Leticia
White, Kristi E
Bell, Brooke
Alegria, Katie E
Bennett, Gary
Edmondson, Donald
Epel, Elissa
Holman, E Alison
Kronish, Ian M
Thayer, Julian
author_facet Nogueira, Leticia
White, Kristi E
Bell, Brooke
Alegria, Katie E
Bennett, Gary
Edmondson, Donald
Epel, Elissa
Holman, E Alison
Kronish, Ian M
Thayer, Julian
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description Climate change is the greatest threat to global health in human history. It has been declared a public health emergency by the World Health Organization and leading researchers from academic institutions around the globe. Structural racism disproportionately exposes communities targeted for marginalization to the harmful consequences of climate change through greater risk of exposure and sensitivity to climate hazards and less adaptive capacity to the health threats of climate change. Given its interdisciplinary approach to integrating behavioral, psychosocial, and biomedical knowledge, the discipline of behavioral medicine is uniquely qualified to address the systemic causes of climate change-related health inequities and can offer a perspective that is currently missing from many climate and health equity efforts. In this article, we summarize relevant concepts, describe how climate change and structural racism intersect to exacerbate health inequities, and recommend six strategies with the greatest potential for addressing climate-related health inequities.
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spelling pubmed-91322032022-05-26 The Role of Behavioral Medicine in Addressing Climate Change-Related Health Inequities Nogueira, Leticia White, Kristi E Bell, Brooke Alegria, Katie E Bennett, Gary Edmondson, Donald Epel, Elissa Holman, E Alison Kronish, Ian M Thayer, Julian Transl Behav Med The Impact of Climate Change on Health and Behavior Climate change is the greatest threat to global health in human history. It has been declared a public health emergency by the World Health Organization and leading researchers from academic institutions around the globe. Structural racism disproportionately exposes communities targeted for marginalization to the harmful consequences of climate change through greater risk of exposure and sensitivity to climate hazards and less adaptive capacity to the health threats of climate change. Given its interdisciplinary approach to integrating behavioral, psychosocial, and biomedical knowledge, the discipline of behavioral medicine is uniquely qualified to address the systemic causes of climate change-related health inequities and can offer a perspective that is currently missing from many climate and health equity efforts. In this article, we summarize relevant concepts, describe how climate change and structural racism intersect to exacerbate health inequities, and recommend six strategies with the greatest potential for addressing climate-related health inequities. Oxford University Press 2022-05-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9132203/ /pubmed/35613004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibac005 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
spellingShingle The Impact of Climate Change on Health and Behavior
Nogueira, Leticia
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Bell, Brooke
Alegria, Katie E
Bennett, Gary
Edmondson, Donald
Epel, Elissa
Holman, E Alison
Kronish, Ian M
Thayer, Julian
The Role of Behavioral Medicine in Addressing Climate Change-Related Health Inequities
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title_sort role of behavioral medicine in addressing climate change-related health inequities
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibac005
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