1. The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come
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Markus Amann, Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson, Olivia Saxer, Lucy McAllister, Julia Tomei, Jan C. Semenza, Maxwell T. Boykoff, Tadj Oreszczyn, David Pencheon, Slava Mikhaylov, Paul Wilkinson, Hugh Montgomery, Jaime Martinez-Urtaza, Anneliese Depoux, Lucien Georgeson, Kristie L. Ebi, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Karyn Morrissey, Maquins Odhiambo Sewe, Olivia Pearman, Tord Kjellstrom, Mark A. Maslin, Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Delia Grace, Peter Byass, Rebecca Steinbach, Lu Liang, Michael Davies, Nigel W. Arnell, Jonathan Chambers, Paula Dominguez-Salas, Helen L. Berry, Mahnaz Rabbaniha, Jeremy J. Hess, Niheer Dasandi, Joy Shumake-Guillemot, Helen Fischer, James Milner, Lucia Fernandez Montoya, Kris A. Murray, Stefanie Schütte, Hilary Graham, Fereidoon Owfi, Peng Gong, Nick Watts, Elizabeth J. Z. Robinson, Joacim Rocklöv, Melissa C. Lott, Steve Pye, Meisam Tabatabaei, Nicola Wheeler, Joaquin Trinanes, Paul Drummond, Ilan Kelman, Wenjia Cai, Paul Ekins, Gregor Kiesewetter, Tara Neville, Anthony Costello, Kristine Belesova, Ian Hamilton, Timothy Bouley, Meaghan Daly, Bruno Lemke, Maria Nilsson, Rachel Lowe, Stella M. Hartinger, Dominic Kniveton, and Medical Research Council (MRC)
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IMPACTS ,Research Report ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Economic growth ,Climate Change ,Vulnerability ,Conservation of Energy Resources ,Climate change ,010501 environmental sciences ,Global Health ,01 natural sciences ,03 medical and health sciences ,Medicine, General & Internal ,0302 clinical medicine ,General & Internal Medicine ,Political science ,medicine ,Global health ,Countdown ,Humans ,Renewable Energy ,030212 general & internal medicine ,TEMPERATURES INCREASE ,11 Medical and Health Sciences ,Health policy ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,GE ,Science & Technology ,Food security ,Health Policy ,Public health ,Financing, Organized ,Politics ,Health services research ,General Medicine ,Health Planning ,DISEASES ,Health Services Research ,Public Health ,Environmental Pollution ,Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Abstract
The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change was established to provide an independent, global monitoring system dedicated to tracking the health dimensions of the impacts of, and the response to, climate change. The Lancet Countdown tracks 41 indicators across five domains: climate change impacts, exposures, and vulnerability; adaptation, planning, and resilience for health; mitigation actions and health co-benefits; finance and economics; and public and political engagement. This report is the product of a collaboration of 27 leading academic institutions, the UN, and intergovernmental agencies from every continent. The report draws on world-class expertise from climate scientists, ecologists, mathematicians, geographers, engineers, energy, food, livestock, and transport experts, economists, social and political scientists, public health professionals, and. doctors. The Lancet Countdown’s work builds on decades of research in this field, and was first proposed in the 2015 Lancet Commission on health and climate change,1 which documented the human impacts of climate change and provided ten global recommendations to respond to this public health emergency and secure the public health benefits available (panel 1).
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