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"Health Protection through Adaptation and Resilience" slide pack (Mar 09)
by Frances Mortimer | Wed, 18/03/2009 - 19:49
"Health Impacts of Climate Change" slide pack (Mar 09)
by Frances Mortimer | Mon, 16/03/2009 - 11:27"Mitigation and Health Improvement" Slide Pack (Mar 09)
by Frances Mortimer | Fri, 23/01/2009 - 12:06Carbon Addict
by Frances Mortimer | Tue, 02/12/2008 - 07:49Published by:
The Climate Connection & The Campaign for Greener Healthcare
Publication date:
2 Dec 2008
Resource type:
evidence base / teaching tool
Brief description:
The fabulous new online guide to medical management of "Carbon Dependence Syndrome".
Do your patients report lengthy showers, meat bingeing and/or compulsive purchase of consumer goods? Asthma? Mental distress? Diabetes? Problem use of carbon-based fuels is now recognised as a disabling medical syndrome.
External URL:
Free screenings of The Age of Stupid for the NHS
by Frances Mortimer | Fri, 03/07/2009 - 16:24
From 7 July, staff and inpatients across the whole NHS will be able to see the film the Age of Stupid for free. The Campaign for Greener Healthcare has teamed up with the NHS Sustainable Development Unit and the Climate and Health Council to arrange a blanket licence fee for the film, which stars actor Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
Emergency Planning
How can we prepare for climate emergencies and prevent emergency responses from damaging the environment
We increasingly need to plan for emergencies relating to climate change. Hopefully plans are already in place to deal with floods etc. But should we modify these in relation to climate change - e.g. to deal with more frequent or longer lasting flooding. Do we need to link up various plans to deal with multiple climate change emergencies - e.g. displaced people causing local increase in population in which an atypical ('tropical')epidemic develops.
Do current emergency plans have negative impacts on the environment, eg. creating huge carbon emissions, or anti-terrorist activity having negative effects on the public transport network. Could we even extend this to the economic emergency? Does the government's response to protect the motor industry (supposedly a green policy) - the 'car scrappage scheme' actually increase emissions caused by production?
Managing the health effects of climate change
by Frances Mortimer | Sun, 31/05/2009 - 10:39Journal name:
The Lancet
Volume & page reference:
Volume 373, Issue 9676, Pages 1693 - 1733
Published by:
UCL & The Lancet
Publication date:
16 Mar 2009
Resource type:
policy report
Brief description:
A comprehensive report prepared by researchers from multiple centres, which sets out a policy response framework for managing the health effects of climate change.
DOI Doc Object Identifier :
doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60935-1
"Public Health Goes Green" Plymouth CPD event
by Frances Mortimer | Fri, 24/04/2009 - 12:34Published by:
Peninsula Teaching Public Health Network
Publication date:
19 Mar 2008
Resource type:
web archive of CPD event
Brief description:
Download presentations and video webcast on: Building sustainable communities, Climate and health, Environment Agency flood risk management, Health and transport, HPA climate change, Waste management
External URL:
TCPA Adaptation by Design
by Frances Mortimer | Fri, 17/04/2009 - 12:15
Adaptation Tools, Reports & Guides (SWCCIP)
by Frances Mortimer | Wed, 15/04/2009 - 11:28Published by:
South West Climate Change Impacts Partnership
Publication date:
1 Jan 2008
Resource type:
web directory
Brief description:
An excellent range of adaptation tools, reports and guides produced or recommended by SWCCIP on their website, sorted by sector into: Agriculture and Forestry, Biodiversity, Business and Utilities, Health, Housing and Construction, Local Government, Tourism, Transport.
External URL:
