Climate Change and Public Health

Now updated with key developments in mitigation and adaptation from the last decade, Climate Change and Public Health, Second Edition offers an engaging overview of climate change and its health consequences alongside evolving methods for climate resilience.

Barry S. Levy, M.D., M.P.H., is an environmental and occupational health specialist with more than forty years of experience in this field. He has edited and written twenty-one previous books. He is an Adjunct Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine and a past president of the American Public Health Association. Jonathan A. Patz, M.D., M.P.H., has taught and conducted research on the health effects of climate change for thirty years and has authored major national and international reports on this subject. He is a Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair of Health and the Environment at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

- * Authors of textboxes written by one or more of the chapter's authors are not shown in the Table of Contents - Foreword to the First Edition - Preface - Acknowledgments - About the Editors - Contributors - Disclaimer - Part I: Introduction - Chapter 1: Applying a Public Health Context to Climate Change - Jonathan A. Patz and Barry S. Levy - Box 1-1: Disparities - Box 1-2: A Brief History of Organizational Responses to Climate Change - Chapter 2: Applying Climate Science to Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events - Stephen J. Vavrus, Aimee Puz, Samuel Kruse, and Jonathan A. Patz - Part II: Health Impacts - Chapter 3: Heat-Related Disorders among Workers - Tord Kjellstrom, Jeremy Lim, and Jason Lee - Box 3-1: Safe Work Depends on Work Intensity Level and Temperature - Chapter 4: Heat-Related Disorders among Community Populations - Rupa Basu and Xiangmei (May) Wu - Chapter 5: Respiratory Disorders - Ioana O. Agache, Vanitha Sampath, Juan Aguilera, and Kari C. Nadeau - Box 5-1: Occupational Respiratory Disorders - Crystal M. North and David C. Christiani - Box 5-2: Achieving Health and Climate Co-benefits by Reducing Household Air Pollution from Solid Cooking Fuels - Lisa M. Thompson and Jamesine V. Rogers Gibson - Chapter 6: Vectorborne Diseases - Christopher M. Barker and William K. Reisen - Chapter 7: Waterborne Diseases - Jennifer R. Bratburd and Sandra L. McLellan - Chapter 8: Food Insecurity and Malnutrition - Jessica Fanzo, Kate R. Schneider, and Stanley Wood - Box 8-1: Threats from Plant Pathogens - Caitilyn Allen - Chapter 9: Mental Health Impacts - Thomas J. Doherty and Amy D. Lykins - Box 9-1: Assessing and Responding to Mental Health Impacts of Wildfires in Alaska - Micah Hahn - Box 9-2: Australia's "Black Summer Bushfire Season" - Chapter 10: Violence - Barry S. Levy - Box 10-1: Migration Due to Climate Change - Part III: Developing and Implementing Policies for Mitigation - Chapter 11. The Public Policymaking Process and the Power of Participation - Kathleen M. Rest - Box 11-1: Examples of Existing Federal Laws, Regulations, and Other Policies Related to Climate Change - Box 11-2: Local Community Takes Action on Deadly Heat - Roseann Bongiovanni - Box 11-3: Approaching Climate Action Through the Lens of Local Needs - Shimekia Nichols and James Gignac - Appendix: Glossary of Some Policymaking Terms - Chapter 12: Energy Policy - Nova M. Tebbe, Nicholas A. Mailloux, and Gregory F. Nemet - Box 12-1: Air Quality and Health Benefits of Mitigation Policies - Chapter 13: Transportation Policy - Kathryn A. Zyla - Box 13-1: Epidemiological Evidence for the Health Benefits of Active Transportation - Natalie Levine and Maggie L. Grabow - Chapter 14: Agriculture Policy - Valerie J. Stull and Jonathan A. Patz - Part IV: Developing and Implementing Actions for Adaptation - Chapter 15: Implementing Health Adaptation - Kristie L. Ebi and Peter Berry - Box 15-1: Guiding Principles for Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health Climate Change and Health Adaptation Framework - Kristie L. Ebi and Peter Berry - Box 15-2: Systems Approach to Climate Services for Health in Ethiopia - Kristie L. Ebi and Peter Berry - Box 15-3: Combining Mitigation and Adaptation: Climate Proofing of Healthcare Facilities - Kristie L. Ebi and Peter Berry - Chapter 16: Planning Healthy and Sustainable Built Environments - Jason Vargo - Chapter 17: Promoting Health Through Nature-Based Climate Solutions - Howard Frumkin, Brendan Shane, and Taj Schottland - Box 17-1: Ecosystem Services and Nature's Contributions to People - Howard Frumkin, Brendan Shane, and Taj Schottland - Box 17-2: How Many Trees Can the World Support? - Howard Frumkin, Brendan Shane, and Taj Schottland - Part V: Strengthening Public and Political Support - Chapter 18: Communicating the Health Relevance of Climate Change - Mona Sarfaty and Edward Maibach - Box 18-1: Principles of Climate Change Communication - Howard Frumkin and Edward Maibach - Chapter 19: Building Movements to Address Climate Change - Teddie M. Potter, Julia Frost Nerbonne, and Vishnu Laalitha Surapaneni - Box 19-1: The Climate and Health Movement - Linda Rudolph - Box 19-2: Greening of the Healthcare Sector - Gary Cohen - Box 19-3: Three Innovative Climate Change Initiatives - Olivia M. Dyrbye-Wright - Chapter 20: Promoting Climate Justice - Rohini J. Haar and Barry S. Levy - Box 20-1: Steps for a Just Energy Transition - Barry S. Levy - Index