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Romanello M, Napoli CD, Green C, Kennard H, Lampard P, Scamman D, Walawender M, Ali Z, Ameli N, Ayeb-Karlsson S, Beggs PJ, Belesova K, Berrang Ford L, Bowen K, Cai W, Callaghan M, Campbell-Lendrum D, Chambers J, Cross TJ, van Daalen KR, Dalin C, Dasandi N, Dasgupta S, Davies M, Dominguez-Salas P, Dubrow R, Ebi KL, Eckelman M, Ekins P, Freyberg C, Gasparyan O, Gordon-Strachan G, Graham H, Gunther SH, Hamilton I, Hang Y, Hänninen R, Hartinger S, He K, Heidecke J, Hess JJ, Hsu SC, Jamart L, Jankin S, Jay O, Kelman I, Kiesewetter G, Kinney P, Kniveton D, Kouznetsov R, Larosa F, Lee JKW, Lemke B, Liu Y, Liu Z, Lott M, Lotto Batista M, Lowe R, Odhiambo Sewe M, Martinez-Urtaza J, Maslin M, McAllister L, McMichael C, Mi Z, Milner J, Minor K, Minx JC, Mohajeri N, Momen NC, Moradi-Lakeh M, Morrissey K, Munzert S, Murray KA, Neville T, Nilsson M, Obradovich N, O'Hare MB, Oliveira C, Oreszczyn T, Otto M, Owfi F, Pearman O, Pega F, Pershing A, Rabbaniha M, Rickman J, Robinson EJZ, Rocklöv J, Salas RN, Semenza JC, Sherman JD, Shumake-Guillemot J, Silbert G, Sofiev M, Springmann M, Stowell JD, Tabatabaei M, Taylor J, Thompson R, Tonne C, Treskova M, Trinanes JA, Wagner F, Warnecke L, Whitcombe H, Winning M, Wyns A, Yglesias-González M, Zhang S, Zhang Y, Zhu Q, Gong P, Montgomery H, Costello A. The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms. Lancet 2023; 402:2346-2394. [PMID: 37977174 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(23)01859-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2023] [Revised: 08/07/2023] [Accepted: 08/31/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Marina Romanello
- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK.
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- School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Washington, DC, USA
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- Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, London, UK
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- School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Heat and Health Research Incubator, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- International Development Department, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Lecce, Italy
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- Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, London, UK
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- School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Information Systems, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Department of Political Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK
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- Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- Carlos Vidal Layseca School of Public Health and Management, Cayetano Heredia Pervuvian University, Lima, Peru
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- Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, London, UK
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Centre for Health and the Global Environment, University of Washington, Washington, DC, USA
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- Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre for AI in Government, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Heat and Health Research Incubator, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Energy, Climate, and Environment Program, Laxenburg, Austria
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- Department of Environmental Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton and Hove, UK
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- Engineering Mechanics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- School of Health, Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, Nelson, New Zealand
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- Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
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- Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
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- Environmental Studies Program, Denison University, Granville, OH, USA
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- School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Public Health Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Data Science Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin, Germany
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- Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Psychosocial Health Research Institute, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Technology Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department for Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- School of Health, Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, Nelson, New Zealand
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- Iranian Fisheries Science Research Institute, Tehran, Iran
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- Center for Science and Technology Policy, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Institute of Tropical Aquaculture and Fisheries, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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- Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago, Spain
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Energy, Climate, and Environment Program, Laxenburg, Austria
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Energy, Climate, and Environment Program, Laxenburg, Austria
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Centro Latinoamericano de Excelencia en Cambio Climatico y Salud, Cayetano Heredia Pervuvian University, Lima, Peru
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- Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
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- Department of Experimental and Translational Medicine and Division of Medicine, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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Romanello M, Di Napoli C, Drummond P, Green C, Kennard H, Lampard P, Scamman D, Arnell N, Ayeb-Karlsson S, Ford LB, Belesova K, Bowen K, Cai W, Callaghan M, Campbell-Lendrum D, Chambers J, van Daalen KR, Dalin C, Dasandi N, Dasgupta S, Davies M, Dominguez-Salas P, Dubrow R, Ebi KL, Eckelman M, Ekins P, Escobar LE, Georgeson L, Graham H, Gunther SH, Hamilton I, Hang Y, Hänninen R, Hartinger S, He K, Hess JJ, Hsu SC, Jankin S, Jamart L, Jay O, Kelman I, Kiesewetter G, Kinney P, Kjellstrom T, Kniveton D, Lee JKW, Lemke B, Liu Y, Liu Z, Lott M, Batista ML, Lowe R, MacGuire F, Sewe MO, Martinez-Urtaza J, Maslin M, McAllister L, McGushin A, McMichael C, Mi Z, Milner J, Minor K, Minx JC, Mohajeri N, Moradi-Lakeh M, Morrissey K, Munzert S, Murray KA, Neville T, Nilsson M, Obradovich N, O'Hare MB, Oreszczyn T, Otto M, Owfi F, Pearman O, Rabbaniha M, Robinson EJZ, Rocklöv J, Salas RN, Semenza JC, Sherman JD, Shi L, Shumake-Guillemot J, Silbert G, Sofiev M, Springmann M, Stowell J, Tabatabaei M, Taylor J, Triñanes J, Wagner F, Wilkinson P, Winning M, Yglesias-González M, Zhang S, Gong P, Montgomery H, Costello A. The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels. Lancet 2022; 400:1619-1654. [PMID: 36306815 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(22)01540-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 280] [Impact Index Per Article: 140.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2022] [Revised: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 08/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Marina Romanello
- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK.
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- School of Agriculture Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Global Health, Centre for Health and the Global Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- UCL Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Environment, Climate Change, and Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health & Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- School of Government, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Economic Analysis of Climate Impacts and Policy Division, Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Venice, Italy
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- Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences and Yale Center on Climate Change and Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Global Health, Centre for Health and the Global Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK
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- NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore, Singapore
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- UCL Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Facultad de Salud Publica y Administracion, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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- Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Global Health, Centre for Health and the Global Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- UCL Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Data Science Lab, Hertie School, Berlin, Germany
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- Heat and Health Research Incubator, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Health and Environmental International Trust, Nelson, New Zealand
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- NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore, Singapore
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- School of Health, Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, Nelson, New Zealand
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- Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases Programme, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
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- Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Centro Nacional de Supercomputacion, Barcelona, Spain
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- Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Section of Sustainable Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
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- Center for Energy Markets, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Barlett School of Sustainable Construction, University of London, London, UK
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- Department of Public Health, Environment, and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, University College London, London, UK
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- Preventative Medicine and Public Health Research Centre, Psychosocial Health Research Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Technology, Management and Economics Sustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
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- MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Environment, Climate Change, and Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Centre for Humans and Machines, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- UCL Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Arts, Media, and Digital Technologies, Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, Nelson, New Zealand
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- Iranian Fisheries Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Organisation, Tehran, Iran
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- Cooperative Institute of Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Iranian Fisheries Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Organisation, Tehran, Iran
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- Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
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- Heidelberg Institute for Global Health and Interdisciplinary Centre forScientific Computing, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Heidelberg Institute for Global Health and Interdisciplinary Centre forScientific Computing, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Institute of Tropical Aquaculture and Fisheries, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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- Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago, Spain
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- Energy, Climate, and Environment Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
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- Department of Public Health, Environment, and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Centro Latinoamericano de Excelencia en Cambio Climático y Salud, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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- Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
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- Centre for Human Health and Performance, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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Romanello M, McGushin A, Di Napoli C, Drummond P, Hughes N, Jamart L, Kennard H, Lampard P, Solano Rodriguez B, Arnell N, Ayeb-Karlsson S, Belesova K, Cai W, Campbell-Lendrum D, Capstick S, Chambers J, Chu L, Ciampi L, Dalin C, Dasandi N, Dasgupta S, Davies M, Dominguez-Salas P, Dubrow R, Ebi KL, Eckelman M, Ekins P, Escobar LE, Georgeson L, Grace D, Graham H, Gunther SH, Hartinger S, He K, Heaviside C, Hess J, Hsu SC, Jankin S, Jimenez MP, Kelman I, Kiesewetter G, Kinney PL, Kjellstrom T, Kniveton D, Lee JKW, Lemke B, Liu Y, Liu Z, Lott M, Lowe R, Martinez-Urtaza J, Maslin M, McAllister L, McMichael C, Mi Z, Milner J, Minor K, Mohajeri N, Moradi-Lakeh M, Morrissey K, Munzert S, Murray KA, Neville T, Nilsson M, Obradovich N, Sewe MO, Oreszczyn T, Otto M, Owfi F, Pearman O, Pencheon D, Rabbaniha M, Robinson E, Rocklöv J, Salas RN, Semenza JC, Sherman J, Shi L, Springmann M, Tabatabaei M, Taylor J, Trinanes J, Shumake-Guillemot J, Vu B, Wagner F, Wilkinson P, Winning M, Yglesias M, Zhang S, Gong P, Montgomery H, Costello A, Hamilton I. The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future. Lancet 2021; 398:1619-1662. [PMID: 34687662 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(21)01787-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 410] [Impact Index Per Article: 136.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2021] [Revised: 07/20/2021] [Accepted: 07/29/2021] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Marina Romanello
- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- UCL Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK
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- Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Institute for Environment and Human Security, United Nations University, Bonn, Germany
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- Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Institute for Environmental Sciences, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Yale Center on Climate Change and Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- The Walker Institute, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- School of Government, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Economic analysis of Climate Impacts and Policy, Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Venice, Italy
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- Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, University College London, London, UK
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- Yale Center on Climate Change and Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
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- Animal and Human Health Program, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK
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- Human Potential Translational Research Programme, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore, Singapore
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- School of Public Health and Administration, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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- The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Health and the Global Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- UCL Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Data Science Lab, Hertie School, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases Programme, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
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- Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Health and Environment International Trust, Nelson, New Zealand
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- Human Potential Translational Research Programme, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore, Singapore
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- School of Health, Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, Nelson, New Zealand
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- Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
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- Center for Energy Markets, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Public Health, Environments, and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, University College London, London, UK
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- Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Psychosocial Health Research Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK; MRC Unit The Gambia, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Fajara, The Gambia
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- Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Centre for Humans and Machines, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Section of Sustainable Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- UCL Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Arts, Media & Digital Technologies, Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, Nelson, New Zealand
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- Iranian Fisheries Science Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Organisation, Tehran, Iran
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- Cooperative Institute of Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- College of Medicine and Health, Exeter University, Exeter, UK
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- Iranian Fisheries Science Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Organisation, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Section of Sustainable Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Higher Institution Centre of Excellence, Institute of Tropical Aquaculture and Fisheries, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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- Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago, Spain
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- Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases Programme, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
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- Department of Public Health, Environments, and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- School of Public Health and Administration, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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- Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
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- Centre for Human Health and Performance, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- UCL Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK.
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Bose-O'Reilly S, Daanen H, Deering K, Gerrett N, Huynen MMTE, Lee J, Karrasch S, Matthies-Wiesler F, Mertes H, Schoierer J, Shumake-Guillemot J, van den Hazel P, Frank van Loenhout JA, Nowak D. COVID-19 and heat waves: New challenges for healthcare systems. Environ Res 2021; 198:111153. [PMID: 33857461 PMCID: PMC8056477 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2020] [Revised: 03/26/2021] [Accepted: 04/06/2021] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Heat waves and Covid-19 overlap, as this pandemic continues into summer 2021. Using a narrative review, we identified overlapping risk groups and propose coping strategies. The high-risk groups for heat-related health problems as well as for high-risk COVID-19 groups overlap considerably (elderly with pre-existing health conditions). Health care facilities will again be challenged by Covid-19 during heat waves. Health care personnel are also at risk of developing heat related health problems during hot periods due to the use of personal protective equipment to shield themselves from SARS-CoV-2 and must therefore be protected from excessive heat periods. Some existing recommendations for heat health protection contradict recommendations for COVID-19 protection. This paper provides a preliminary overview of possible strategies and interventions to tackle these ambiguities. The existing recommendations for protection against heat-related illnesses need revisions to determine whether they include essential aspects of infection control and occupational safety and how they may be supplemented.
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- Stephan Bose-O'Reilly
- Institute and Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Ziemssenstr. 1, 80336, Munich, Germany; Institute for Public Health, Medical Decision Making and HTA, UMIT - Private University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Eduard-Wallnöfer Zentrum 1, 6060, Hall i.T., Austria; University Children's Hospital Regensburg (KUNO) at the Hospital St. Hedwig of the Order of St. John and the University Hospital, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
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- Department of Human Movement Sciences. Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081, BT Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Institute and Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Ziemssenstr. 1, 80336, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Human Movement Sciences. Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081, BT Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Human Potential Translational Research Programme, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117593, Singapore; Global Asia Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore; N.1 Institute for Health, National University of Singapore, 28 Medical Dr, Singapore 117456, Singapore; Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Institute for Digital Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
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- Institute and Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Ziemssenstr. 1, 80336, Munich, Germany; Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Centre for Environment and Health, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany; Comprehensive Pneumology Center Munich (CPC-M), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Centre for Environment and Health, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute and Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Ziemssenstr. 1, 80336, Munich, Germany
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- Institute and Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Ziemssenstr. 1, 80336, Munich, Germany
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- International Network on Children's Health, Environment and Safety (INCHES), Ellecom, the Netherlands
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- Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), Institute of Health and Society, UCLouvain, Clos Chapelle-Aux-Champs 30, 1200, Woluwé-Saint-Lambert (Brussels), Belgium
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- Institute and Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Ziemssenstr. 1, 80336, Munich, Germany; Comprehensive Pneumology Center Munich (CPC-M), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany
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Fletcher IK, Stewart-Ibarra AM, García-Díez M, Shumake-Guillemot J, Lowe R. Climate services for health: From global observations to local interventions. Med (N Y) 2021; 2:355-361. [PMID: 35590157 DOI: 10.1016/j.medj.2021.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2021] [Revised: 03/16/2021] [Accepted: 03/16/2021] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Despite the wealth of available climate data available, there is no consensus on the most appropriate product choice for health impact modelling and how this influences downstream climate-health decisions. We discuss challenges related to product choice, highlighting the importance of considering data biases and co-development of climate services between different sectors.
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- Isabel K Fletcher
- Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
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- Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, Montevideo, Department of Montevideo, Uruguay
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- World Health Organization-World Meteorological Organization Joint Climate and Health Office, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
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Watts N, Amann M, Arnell N, Ayeb-Karlsson S, Beagley J, Belesova K, Boykoff M, Byass P, Cai W, Campbell-Lendrum D, Capstick S, Chambers J, Coleman S, Dalin C, Daly M, Dasandi N, Dasgupta S, Davies M, Di Napoli C, Dominguez-Salas P, Drummond P, Dubrow R, Ebi KL, Eckelman M, Ekins P, Escobar LE, Georgeson L, Golder S, Grace D, Graham H, Haggar P, Hamilton I, Hartinger S, Hess J, Hsu SC, Hughes N, Jankin Mikhaylov S, Jimenez MP, Kelman I, Kennard H, Kiesewetter G, Kinney PL, Kjellstrom T, Kniveton D, Lampard P, Lemke B, Liu Y, Liu Z, Lott M, Lowe R, Martinez-Urtaza J, Maslin M, McAllister L, McGushin A, McMichael C, Milner J, Moradi-Lakeh M, Morrissey K, Munzert S, Murray KA, Neville T, Nilsson M, Sewe MO, Oreszczyn T, Otto M, Owfi F, Pearman O, Pencheon D, Quinn R, Rabbaniha M, Robinson E, Rocklöv J, Romanello M, Semenza JC, Sherman J, Shi L, Springmann M, Tabatabaei M, Taylor J, Triñanes J, Shumake-Guillemot J, Vu B, Wilkinson P, Winning M, Gong P, Montgomery H, Costello A. The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises. Lancet 2021; 397:129-170. [PMID: 33278353 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(20)32290-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 670] [Impact Index Per Article: 223.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2020] [Revised: 08/03/2020] [Accepted: 08/04/2020] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
Abstract
For the Chinese, French, German, and Spanish translations of the abstract see Supplementary Materials section.
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- Nick Watts
- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK.
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- Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
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- Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Institute for Environment and Human Security, United Nations University, Bonn, Germany
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Environmental Studies Program, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Environment, Climate Change and Health Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Environmental Studies, University of New England, Biddeford, ME, USA
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- School of Government, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Venice, Italy
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- Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, University College London, London, UK
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- School of Agriculture, Policy, and Development, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Yale Center on Climate Change and Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK
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- CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Human Nutrition and Health, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Department of Environmental Studies, University of New England, Biddeford, ME, USA
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- School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- School of Public Health and Administration, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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- Center for Health and the Global Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
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- Department of Environmental Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Health and Environment International Trust, Nelson, New Zealand
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK
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- School of Health, Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, Nelson, New Zealand
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- Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
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- Center for Energy Markets, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Public Health, Environments, and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Psychosocial Health Research Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Medical Research Council Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, UK; Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Bakau, The Gambia
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- Environment, Climate Change and Health Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Arts, Media and Digital Technologies, Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, Nelson, New Zealand
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- Iranian Fisheries Science Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Organisation, Tehran, Iran
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- Environmental Studies Program, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Medical and Health School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Iranian Fisheries Science Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Organisation, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Agriculture, Policy, and Development, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Scientific Assessment Section, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Institute of Tropical Aquaculture and Fisheries, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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- Department of Electronics and Computer Science, CRETUS Institute, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago, Spain
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- Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Public Health, Environments, and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Institute for Human Health and Performance, University College London, London, UK
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- Office of the Vice Provost for Research, University College London, London, UK
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Zaitchik BF, Sweijd N, Shumake-Guillemot J, Morse A, Gordon C, Marty A, Trtanj J, Luterbacher J, Botai J, Behera S, Lu Y, Olwoch J, Takahashi K, Stowell JD, Rodó X. A framework for research linking weather, climate and COVID-19. Nat Commun 2020; 11:5730. [PMID: 33184283 PMCID: PMC7661498 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19546-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2020] [Accepted: 10/21/2020] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Early studies of weather, seasonality, and environmental influences on COVID-19 have yielded inconsistent and confusing results. To provide policy-makers and the public with meaningful and actionable environmentally-informed COVID-19 risk estimates, the research community must meet robust methodological and communication standards.
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- Benjamin F Zaitchik
- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 3400N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA.
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- Alliance for Collaboration on Climate and Earth Systems Science (ACCESS) c/o Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), 15 Lower Hope Road, Cape Town, 7700, South Africa
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- WHO/WMO Climate and Health Joint Office, World Meteorological Organization, 7bis Avenue de la Paix, C.P. 2300, CH-1211, Geneva, Switzerland
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7BX, UK
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- CDKN CEL-Ghana and Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana
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- Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, 11200 SW 8th St, AHC2 675, Miami, FL, 33199, USA
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- Climate Program Office, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1315 East-West Highway Suite 100, Silver Spring, MD, 20910, USA
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- Science and Innovation Department, World Meteorological Organization, 7bis Avenue de la Paix, C.P. 2300, CH-1211, Geneva, Switzerland
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- South African Weather Service, 01 Ecopark Drive, Ecoglades Block B, Centurion, Pretoria, 0157, South Africa
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coastal Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, 361102, Fujian, China
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- SASSCAL Regional Secretariat, 28 Robert Mugabe Avenue, Windhoek, Namibia
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- Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú-SENAMHI, Jr. Cahuide 785, Jesús María, Lima, 15072, Peru
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- Boston University, 715 Albany Street, The Talbot Building, T4W, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
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- ICREA and Climate and Health Program, ISGlobal, Doctor Aiguader 88, Barcelona, 08003, Barcelona, Spain
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Daanen H, Bose-O'Reilly S, Brearley M, Flouris DA, Gerrett NM, Huynen M, Jones HM, Lee JKW, Morris N, Norton I, Nybo L, Oppermann E, Shumake-Guillemot J, Van den Hazel P. COVID-19 and thermoregulation-related problems: Practical recommendations. Temperature (Austin) 2020; 8:1-11. [PMID: 33553500 PMCID: PMC7849778 DOI: 10.1080/23328940.2020.1790971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic started in the cold months of the year 2020 in the Northern hemisphere. Concerns were raised that the hot season may lead to additional problems as some typical interventions to prevent heat-related illness could potentially conflict with precautions to reduce coronavirus transmission. Therefore, an international research team organized by the Global Health Heat Information Network generated an inventory of the specific concerns about this nexus and began to address the issues. Three key thermal and covid-19 related topics were highlighted: 1) For the general public, going to public cool areas in the hot season interferes with the recommendation to stay at home to reduce the spread of the virus. Conflicting advice makes it necessary to revise national heat plans and alert policymakers of this forecasted issue. 2) For medical personnel working in hot conditions, heat strain is exacerbated due to a reduction in heat loss from wearing personal protective equipment to prevent contamination. To avoid heat-related injuries, medical personnel are recommended to precool and to minimize the increase in body core temperature using adopted work/rest schedules, specific clothing systems, and by drinking cold fluids. 3) Fever, one of the main symptoms of COVID-19, may be difficult to distinguish from heat-induced hyperthermia and a resting period may be necessary prior to measurement to avoid misinterpretation. In summary, heat in combination with the COVID-19 pandemic leads to additional problems; the impact of which can be reduced by revising heat plans and implementing special measures attentive to these compound risks.
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- Hein Daanen
- Department of Human Movement Sciences. Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute and Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Germany.,Institute for Public Health, Medical Decision Making and HTA, UMIT - Private University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall i.T., Austria.,Hospital St. Hedwig of the Order of St. John, Institute and Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Children's Hospital Regensburg (KUNO), University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Munich, Germany
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- National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre, Australia
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- FAME Laboratory, Department of Exercise Science, University of Thessaly, Greece
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- Department of Human Movement Sciences. Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Maastricht University Institute (MSI), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Service to the U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.,Global Asia Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore.,N.1 Institute for Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Respond Global, Australia.,Previously World Health Organization, Switzerland
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- University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department Für Geographie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
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Watts N, Amann M, Arnell N, Ayeb-Karlsson S, Belesova K, Boykoff M, Byass P, Cai W, Campbell-Lendrum D, Capstick S, Chambers J, Dalin C, Daly M, Dasandi N, Davies M, Drummond P, Dubrow R, Ebi KL, Eckelman M, Ekins P, Escobar LE, Fernandez Montoya L, Georgeson L, Graham H, Haggar P, Hamilton I, Hartinger S, Hess J, Kelman I, Kiesewetter G, Kjellstrom T, Kniveton D, Lemke B, Liu Y, Lott M, Lowe R, Sewe MO, Martinez-Urtaza J, Maslin M, McAllister L, McGushin A, Jankin Mikhaylov S, Milner J, Moradi-Lakeh M, Morrissey K, Murray K, Munzert S, Nilsson M, Neville T, Oreszczyn T, Owfi F, Pearman O, Pencheon D, Phung D, Pye S, Quinn R, Rabbaniha M, Robinson E, Rocklöv J, Semenza JC, Sherman J, Shumake-Guillemot J, Tabatabaei M, Taylor J, Trinanes J, Wilkinson P, Costello A, Gong P, Montgomery H. The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate. Lancet 2019; 394:1836-1878. [PMID: 31733928 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(19)32596-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 548] [Impact Index Per Article: 109.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2019] [Revised: 09/03/2019] [Accepted: 09/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Nick Watts
- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK.
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- Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases Programme, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
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- Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Environmental Studies, University of New England, Biddeford, ME, USA
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- School of Government, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Yale Climate Change and Health Initiative, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK
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- School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- The Integrated Development, Health and Environment Unit, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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- Centre for Health and the Global Environment, University of Washington, Washington, DC, USA
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases Programme, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
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- Health and Environment International Trust, Nelson, New Zealand
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- Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, Nelson, New Zealand
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- Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Center on Global Energy Policy School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA
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- Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
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- History and Society Division, Babson College, Wellesley, MA, USA
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Public Health, Environments, and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health and the Environment, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Iranian Fisheries Science Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Organisation, Tehran, Iran
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- Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- School of Medicine, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Iranian Fisheries Science Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Organisation, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Agriculture, Policy, and Development, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Scientific Assessment Section, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia
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- Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, University College London, London, UK
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- Physical Oceanography Division, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Public Health, Environments, and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Office of the Vice Provost for Research, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Institute for Human Health and Performance, University College London, London, UK
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Watts N, Amann M, Arnell N, Ayeb-Karlsson S, Belesova K, Berry H, Bouley T, Boykoff M, Byass P, Cai W, Campbell-Lendrum D, Chambers J, Daly M, Dasandi N, Davies M, Depoux A, Dominguez-Salas P, Drummond P, Ebi KL, Ekins P, Montoya LF, Fischer H, Georgeson L, Grace D, Graham H, Hamilton I, Hartinger S, Hess J, Kelman I, Kiesewetter G, Kjellstrom T, Kniveton D, Lemke B, Liang L, Lott M, Lowe R, Sewe MO, Martinez-Urtaza J, Maslin M, McAllister L, Mikhaylov SJ, Milner J, Moradi-Lakeh M, Morrissey K, Murray K, Nilsson M, Neville T, Oreszczyn T, Owfi F, Pearman O, Pencheon D, Pye S, Rabbaniha M, Robinson E, Rocklöv J, Saxer O, Schütte S, Semenza JC, Shumake-Guillemot J, Steinbach R, Tabatabaei M, Tomei J, Trinanes J, Wheeler N, Wilkinson P, Gong P, Montgomery H, Costello A. The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come. Lancet 2018; 392:2479-2514. [PMID: 30503045 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(18)32594-77] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2018] [Revised: 08/30/2018] [Accepted: 10/12/2018] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Nick Watts
- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK.
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- Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases Programme, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
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- Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Department of Public Health, Environments, and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Sydney School of Public Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Health and Climate Change Unit, World Bank, Washington, DC, USA
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- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Epidemiology and Global Health Unit, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Environmental Studies, University of New England, Biddeford, ME, USA
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- School of Government and Society, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre Virchow-Villermé for Public Health Paris-Berlin, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité and Université Paris Sorbonne, Paris, France
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- Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Washington, DC, USA
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK
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- UCL Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Health and the Global Environment, University of Washington, Washington, DC, USA
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases Programme, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
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- Health and Environment International Trust, Nelson, New Zealand
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- Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, Nelson, New Zealand
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- University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
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- Asia Pacific Energy Research Centre, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Epidemiology and Global Health Unit, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
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- History and Society Division, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Public Health, Environments, and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Centre, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- European Centre for the Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Imperial college London, London, UK
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- Epidemiology and Global Health Unit, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health and the Environment, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
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- UCL Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Iranian Fisheries Science Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Organisation, Tehran, Iran
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- Centre for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- UCL Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Iranian Fisheries Science Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Organisation, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Agriculture, Policy, and Development, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Epidemiology and Global Health Unit, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Centre Virchow-Villermé for Public Health Paris-Berlin, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité and Université Paris Sorbonne, Paris, France
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- Centre Virchow-Villermé for Public Health Paris-Berlin, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité and Université Paris Sorbonne, Paris, France
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- European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health, Environments, and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran, Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Organisation, Tehran, Iran
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Physical Oceanography Division, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Miami, FL, USA
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Public Health, Environments, and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Centre for Human Health and Performance, Department of Medicine, University College London, London, UK
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- Office of the Vice-Provost (Research), University College London, London, UK
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Watts N, Amann M, Arnell N, Ayeb-Karlsson S, Belesova K, Berry H, Bouley T, Boykoff M, Byass P, Cai W, Campbell-Lendrum D, Chambers J, Daly M, Dasandi N, Davies M, Depoux A, Dominguez-Salas P, Drummond P, Ebi KL, Ekins P, Montoya LF, Fischer H, Georgeson L, Grace D, Graham H, Hamilton I, Hartinger S, Hess J, Kelman I, Kiesewetter G, Kjellstrom T, Kniveton D, Lemke B, Liang L, Lott M, Lowe R, Sewe MO, Martinez-Urtaza J, Maslin M, McAllister L, Mikhaylov SJ, Milner J, Moradi-Lakeh M, Morrissey K, Murray K, Nilsson M, Neville T, Oreszczyn T, Owfi F, Pearman O, Pencheon D, Pye S, Rabbaniha M, Robinson E, Rocklöv J, Saxer O, Schütte S, Semenza JC, Shumake-Guillemot J, Steinbach R, Tabatabaei M, Tomei J, Trinanes J, Wheeler N, Wilkinson P, Gong P, Montgomery H, Costello A. The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come. Lancet 2018; 392:2479-2514. [PMID: 30503045 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(18)32594-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 328] [Impact Index Per Article: 54.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2018] [Revised: 08/30/2018] [Accepted: 10/12/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Nick Watts
- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK.
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- Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases Programme, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
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- Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Department of Public Health, Environments, and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Sydney School of Public Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Health and Climate Change Unit, World Bank, Washington, DC, USA
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- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Epidemiology and Global Health Unit, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Environmental Studies, University of New England, Biddeford, ME, USA
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- School of Government and Society, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre Virchow-Villermé for Public Health Paris-Berlin, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité and Université Paris Sorbonne, Paris, France
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- Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Washington, DC, USA
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK
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- UCL Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Health and the Global Environment, University of Washington, Washington, DC, USA
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases Programme, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
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- Health and Environment International Trust, Nelson, New Zealand
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- Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, Nelson, New Zealand
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- University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
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- Asia Pacific Energy Research Centre, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Epidemiology and Global Health Unit, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
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- History and Society Division, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Public Health, Environments, and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Centre, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- European Centre for the Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Imperial college London, London, UK
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- Epidemiology and Global Health Unit, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health and the Environment, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
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- UCL Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Iranian Fisheries Science Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Organisation, Tehran, Iran
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- Centre for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- UCL Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Iranian Fisheries Science Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Organisation, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Agriculture, Policy, and Development, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Epidemiology and Global Health Unit, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Centre Virchow-Villermé for Public Health Paris-Berlin, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité and Université Paris Sorbonne, Paris, France
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- Centre Virchow-Villermé for Public Health Paris-Berlin, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité and Université Paris Sorbonne, Paris, France
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- European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health, Environments, and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran, Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Organisation, Tehran, Iran
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Physical Oceanography Division, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Miami, FL, USA
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Public Health, Environments, and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Centre for Human Health and Performance, Department of Medicine, University College London, London, UK
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- Office of the Vice-Provost (Research), University College London, London, UK
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Berry P, Enright PM, Shumake-Guillemot J, Villalobos Prats E, Campbell-Lendrum D. Assessing Health Vulnerabilities and Adaptation to Climate Change: A Review of International Progress. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2018; 15:E2626. [PMID: 30477122 PMCID: PMC6313539 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph15122626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2018] [Revised: 11/13/2018] [Accepted: 11/14/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Climate change is increasing risks to human health and to the health systems that seek to protect the safety and well-being of populations. Health authorities require information about current associations between health outcomes and weather or climate, vulnerable populations, projections of future risks and adaptation opportunities in order to reduce exposures, empower individuals to take needed protective actions and build climate-resilient health systems. An increasing number of health authorities from local to national levels seek this information by conducting climate change and health vulnerability and adaptation assessments. While assessments can provide valuable information to plan for climate change impacts, the results of many studies are not helping to build the global evidence-base of knowledge in this area. They are also often not integrated into adaptation decision making, sometimes because the health sector is not involved in climate change policy making processes at the national level. Significant barriers related to data accessibility, a limited number of climate and health models, uncertainty in climate projections, and a lack of funding and expertise, particularly in developing countries, challenge health authority efforts to conduct rigorous assessments and apply the findings. This paper examines the evolution of climate change and health vulnerability and adaptation assessments, including guidance developed for such projects, the number of assessments that have been conducted globally and implementation of the findings to support health adaptation action. Greater capacity building that facilitates assessments from local to national scales will support collaborative efforts to protect health from current climate hazards and future climate change. Health sector officials will benefit from additional resources and partnership opportunities to ensure that evidence about climate change impacts on health is effectively translated into needed actions to build health resilience.
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- Peter Berry
- Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada.
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- Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada.
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Thomson MC, Muñoz ÁG, Cousin R, Shumake-Guillemot J. Climate drivers of vector-borne diseases in Africa and their relevance to control programmes. Infect Dis Poverty 2018; 7:81. [PMID: 30092816 PMCID: PMC6085673 DOI: 10.1186/s40249-018-0460-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2017] [Accepted: 07/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Background Climate-based disease forecasting has been proposed as a potential tool in climate change adaptation for the health sector. Here we explore the relevance of climate data, drivers and predictions for vector-borne disease control efforts in Africa. Methods Using data from a number of sources we explore rainfall and temperature across the African continent, from seasonality to variability at annual, multi-decadal and timescales consistent with climate change. We give particular attention to three regions defined as WHO-TDR study zones in Western, Eastern and Southern Africa. Our analyses include 1) time scale decomposition to establish the relative importance of year-to-year, decadal and long term trends in rainfall and temperature; 2) the impact of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on rainfall and temperature at the Pan African scale; 3) the impact of ENSO on the climate of Tanzania using high resolution climate products and 4) the potential predictability of the climate in different regions and seasons using Generalized Relative Operating Characteristics. We use these analyses to review the relevance of climate forecasts for applications in vector borne disease control across the continent. Results Timescale decomposition revealed long term warming in all three regions of Africa – at the level of 0.1–0.3 °C per decade. Decadal variations in rainfall were apparent in all regions and particularly pronounced in the Sahel and during the East African long rains (March–May). Year-to-year variability in both rainfall and temperature, in part associated with ENSO, were the dominant signal for climate variations on any timescale. Observed climate data and seasonal climate forecasts were identified as the most relevant sources of climate information for use in early warning systems for vector-borne diseases but the latter varied in skill by region and season. Conclusions Adaptation to the vector-borne disease risks of climate variability and change is a priority for government and civil society in African countries. Understanding rainfall and temperature variations and trends at multiple timescales and their potential predictability is a necessary first step in the incorporation of relevant climate information into vector-borne disease control decision-making. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s40249-018-0460-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Madeleine C Thomson
- International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA. .,Mailman School of Public Health Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University, New York, USA. .,IRI-World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre (US 430) on Early Warning Systems for Malaria and other Climate Sensitive Diseases, New York, USA. .,International Research Institute for Climate and Society, LDEO, Palisades, New York, 10964, USA.
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- International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA.,Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA
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- World Health Organization- World Meteorological Organization Joint Climate and Health Office, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland
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Watts N, Amann M, Ayeb-Karlsson S, Belesova K, Bouley T, Boykoff M, Byass P, Cai W, Campbell-Lendrum D, Chambers J, Cox PM, Daly M, Dasandi N, Davies M, Depledge M, Depoux A, Dominguez-Salas P, Drummond P, Ekins P, Flahault A, Frumkin H, Georgeson L, Ghanei M, Grace D, Graham H, Grojsman R, Haines A, Hamilton I, Hartinger S, Johnson A, Kelman I, Kiesewetter G, Kniveton D, Liang L, Lott M, Lowe R, Mace G, Odhiambo Sewe M, Maslin M, Mikhaylov S, Milner J, Latifi AM, Moradi-Lakeh M, Morrissey K, Murray K, Neville T, Nilsson M, Oreszczyn T, Owfi F, Pencheon D, Pye S, Rabbaniha M, Robinson E, Rocklöv J, Schütte S, Shumake-Guillemot J, Steinbach R, Tabatabaei M, Wheeler N, Wilkinson P, Gong P, Montgomery H, Costello A. The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health. Lancet 2018; 391:581-630. [PMID: 29096948 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(17)32464-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 418] [Impact Index Per Article: 69.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2017] [Revised: 08/31/2017] [Accepted: 09/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Nick Watts
- Institute of Global Health, University College London, London, UK.
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- Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases Program and Greenhouse Gas Initiative, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna, Austria
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- Environmental Migration, Social Vulnerability and daptation section (EMSVA), Institute for Environment and Security, United Nations University, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Climate Change Department, World Bank, Washington, DC, USA
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- Center for Science and Technology Policy, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Epidemiology & Global Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- College of Engineering, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Center for Science and Technology Policy, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- International Development Department, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre Virchow-Villermé for Public Health Paris-Berlin, Paris, France
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- Department of Production and Population Health, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK
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- UCL Institute of Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- UCL Institute of Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre Virchow-Villermé for Public Health Paris-Berlin, Paris, France
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Chemical Injuries Research Center, University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Food Safety and Zoonoses Program, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK
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- Centre Virchow-Villermé for Public Health Paris-Berlin, Paris, France
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- Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- UCL Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Unidad de Desarrollo Integral, Ambiente y Salud, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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- UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, London, UK
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- UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, London, UK
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- Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases Program and Greenhouse Gas Initiative, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna, Austria
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- School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Arkansas at Monticello, Monticello, AR, USA
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- UCL Institute of Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- UCL Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK
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- Epidemiology & Global Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute for Analytics and Data Science, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
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- Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Applied Biotechnology Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- European Centre for Environment & Human Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Grantham Institute-Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Epidemiology & Global Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources, Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, London, UK
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- Iranian Fisheries Science Research Institute, AREEO, Tehran, Iran
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- UCL Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Iranian Fisheries Science Research Institute, AREEO, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Epidemiology & Global Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Centre Virchow-Villermé for Public Health Paris-Berlin, Paris, France
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- WHO/WMO Joint Climate and Health Office, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Biofuel Research Team, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran, AREEO, Karaj, Iran
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- Institute of Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Centre for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Centre for Human Health and Performance, Division of Medicine, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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Watts N, Adger WN, Ayeb-Karlsson S, Bai Y, Byass P, Campbell-Lendrum D, Colbourn T, Cox P, Davies M, Depledge M, Depoux A, Dominguez-Salas P, Drummond P, Ekins P, Flahault A, Grace D, Graham H, Haines A, Hamilton I, Johnson A, Kelman I, Kovats S, Liang L, Lott M, Lowe R, Luo Y, Mace G, Maslin M, Morrissey K, Murray K, Neville T, Nilsson M, Oreszczyn T, Parthemore C, Pencheon D, Robinson E, Schütte S, Shumake-Guillemot J, Vineis P, Wilkinson P, Wheeler N, Xu B, Yang J, Yin Y, Yu C, Gong P, Montgomery H, Costello A. The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change. Lancet 2017; 389:1151-1164. [PMID: 27856085 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(16)32124-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 182] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2016] [Revised: 10/10/2016] [Accepted: 10/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
Abstract
The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change is an international, multidisciplinary research collaboration between academic institutions and practitioners across the world. It follows on from the work of the 2015 Lancet Commission, which concluded that the response to climate change could be "the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century". The Lancet Countdown aims to track the health impacts of climate hazards; health resilience and adaptation; health co-benefits of climate change mitigation; economics and finance; and political and broader engagement. These focus areas form the five thematic working groups of the Lancet Countdown and represent different aspects of the complex association between health and climate change. These thematic groups will provide indicators for a global overview of health and climate change; national case studies highlighting countries leading the way or going against the trend; and engagement with a range of stakeholders. The Lancet Countdown ultimately aims to report annually on a series of indicators across these five working groups. This paper outlines the potential indicators and indicator domains to be tracked by the collaboration, with suggestions on the methodologies and datasets available to achieve this end. The proposed indicator domains require further refinement, and mark the beginning of an ongoing consultation process-from November, 2016 to early 2017-to develop these domains, identify key areas not currently covered, and change indicators where necessary. This collaboration will actively seek to engage with existing monitoring processes, such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals and WHO's climate and health country profiles. The indicators will also evolve over time through ongoing collaboration with experts and a range of stakeholders, and be dependent on the emergence of new evidence and knowledge. During the course of its work, the Lancet Countdown will adopt a collaborative and iterative process, which aims to complement existing initiatives, welcome engagement with new partners, and be open to developing new research projects on health and climate change.
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Affiliation(s)
- Nick Watts
- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK.
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- Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Centre for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Epidemiology & Global Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- College of Engineering, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, University College London, London, UK
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- University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Centre Virchow-Villermé for Public Health Paris-Berlin, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
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- Department of Production and Population Health, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre Virchow-Villermé for Public Health Paris-Berlin, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
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- Food Safety and Zoonoses Program, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK
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- NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Environmental Change and Health and Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute for Global Health and UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, London, UK
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- NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Environmental Change and Health and Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Arkansas at Monticello, Monticello, AR, USA
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- Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, London, UK
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- Energy Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
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- European Centre for Environment & Human Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Grantham Institute-Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Epidemiology & Global Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources, RCUK Centre for Energy Epidemiology, University College London, London, UK
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- School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Centre Virchow-Villermé for Public Health Paris-Berlin, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
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- WHO/WMO Joint Climate and Health Office, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- MRC/PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Environmental Change and Health and Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Centre for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Centre for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Centre for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Centre for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Institute for Human Health and Performance, Division of Medicine, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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