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Priorities for Bolstering Public Health Resilience in the Context of Climate Change in Dominica and Puerto Rico
Caribbean small island developing states are highly exposed to climate change impacts. Incorporating weather and climate information into public health decisions can promote resilience to climate change’s adverse health effects, but regionally it is not common practice. We implemented a project to e...
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Ubiquity Press
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9336690/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35974983 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3876 |
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author | Covert, Hannah H. Soares, Lissa Fortes Wahid, Firoz Abdoel Allen, Teddy Guido, Zack Johnson, David Mahon, Roché Méndez-Lázaro, Pablo Sherman, Mya St. Ville, Sylvester Trotman, Adrian Lichtveld, Maureen Y. |
author_facet | Covert, Hannah H. Soares, Lissa Fortes Wahid, Firoz Abdoel Allen, Teddy Guido, Zack Johnson, David Mahon, Roché Méndez-Lázaro, Pablo Sherman, Mya St. Ville, Sylvester Trotman, Adrian Lichtveld, Maureen Y. |
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description | Caribbean small island developing states are highly exposed to climate change impacts. Incorporating weather and climate information into public health decisions can promote resilience to climate change’s adverse health effects, but regionally it is not common practice. We implemented a project to enhance dialogue between climate and public health specialists in Puerto Rico and Dominica. First, we conducted environmental scans of public health vulnerability in the context of weather and climate for both islands. Then, we convened stakeholders to discuss the scan results and identify priorities for climate and health. A shared priority was increasing climate and health knowledge; thus, we developed several educational initiatives. In this viewpoint, we discuss our process for conducting environmental scans, building capacity and partnerships, and translating knowledge-to-action around climate and health. |
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spelling | pubmed-93366902022-08-15 Priorities for Bolstering Public Health Resilience in the Context of Climate Change in Dominica and Puerto Rico Covert, Hannah H. Soares, Lissa Fortes Wahid, Firoz Abdoel Allen, Teddy Guido, Zack Johnson, David Mahon, Roché Méndez-Lázaro, Pablo Sherman, Mya St. Ville, Sylvester Trotman, Adrian Lichtveld, Maureen Y. Ann Glob Health Viewpoint Caribbean small island developing states are highly exposed to climate change impacts. Incorporating weather and climate information into public health decisions can promote resilience to climate change’s adverse health effects, but regionally it is not common practice. We implemented a project to enhance dialogue between climate and public health specialists in Puerto Rico and Dominica. First, we conducted environmental scans of public health vulnerability in the context of weather and climate for both islands. Then, we convened stakeholders to discuss the scan results and identify priorities for climate and health. A shared priority was increasing climate and health knowledge; thus, we developed several educational initiatives. In this viewpoint, we discuss our process for conducting environmental scans, building capacity and partnerships, and translating knowledge-to-action around climate and health. Ubiquity Press 2022-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9336690/ /pubmed/35974983 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3876 Text en Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Viewpoint Covert, Hannah H. Soares, Lissa Fortes Wahid, Firoz Abdoel Allen, Teddy Guido, Zack Johnson, David Mahon, Roché Méndez-Lázaro, Pablo Sherman, Mya St. Ville, Sylvester Trotman, Adrian Lichtveld, Maureen Y. Priorities for Bolstering Public Health Resilience in the Context of Climate Change in Dominica and Puerto Rico |
title | Priorities for Bolstering Public Health Resilience in the Context of Climate Change in Dominica and Puerto Rico |
title_full | Priorities for Bolstering Public Health Resilience in the Context of Climate Change in Dominica and Puerto Rico |
title_fullStr | Priorities for Bolstering Public Health Resilience in the Context of Climate Change in Dominica and Puerto Rico |
title_full_unstemmed | Priorities for Bolstering Public Health Resilience in the Context of Climate Change in Dominica and Puerto Rico |
title_short | Priorities for Bolstering Public Health Resilience in the Context of Climate Change in Dominica and Puerto Rico |
title_sort | priorities for bolstering public health resilience in the context of climate change in dominica and puerto rico |
topic | Viewpoint |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9336690/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35974983 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3876 |
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