TY - JOUR
T1 - Health impact assessment of global climate change
T2 - Expanding on comparative risk assessment approaches for policy making
AU - Patz, Jonathan
AU - Campbell-Lendrum, Diarmid
AU - Gibbs, Holly
AU - Woodruff, Rosalie
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Climate change is projected to have adverse impacts on public health. Cobenefits may be possible from more upstream mitigation of greenhouse gases causing climate change. To help measure such cobenefits alongside averted disease-specific risks, a health impact assessment (HIA) framework can more comprehensively serve as a decision support tool. HIA also considers health equity, clearly part of the climate change problem. New choices for energy must be made carefully considering such effects as additional pressure on the world's forests through large-scale expansion of soybean and oil palm plantations, leading to forest clearing, biodiversity loss and disease emergence, expulsion of subsistence fanners, and potential increases in food prices and emissions of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Investigators must consider the full range of policy options, supported by more comprehensive, flexible, and transparent assessment methods.
AB - Climate change is projected to have adverse impacts on public health. Cobenefits may be possible from more upstream mitigation of greenhouse gases causing climate change. To help measure such cobenefits alongside averted disease-specific risks, a health impact assessment (HIA) framework can more comprehensively serve as a decision support tool. HIA also considers health equity, clearly part of the climate change problem. New choices for energy must be made carefully considering such effects as additional pressure on the world's forests through large-scale expansion of soybean and oil palm plantations, leading to forest clearing, biodiversity loss and disease emergence, expulsion of subsistence fanners, and potential increases in food prices and emissions of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Investigators must consider the full range of policy options, supported by more comprehensive, flexible, and transparent assessment methods.
KW - Biofuels
KW - Deforestation
KW - Diarrhea
KW - Global warming
KW - Malaria
KW - Urban planning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=42649139539&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.29.020907.090750
DO - 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.29.020907.090750
M3 - Article
SN - 0163-7525
VL - 29
SP - 27
EP - 39
JO - Annual Review of Public Health
JF - Annual Review of Public Health
ER -