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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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Autores principales: 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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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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/.
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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
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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
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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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