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There are enormous health benefits from tackling climate change. This book provides an introduction for health practitioners and students to climate change and its current and future health impacts. It describes the relationship between health and the environment, gives facts and figures on greenhouse gas emissions and sets out the huge benefits to health of acting on climate change. The authors explain what health practitioners can do at home, at work and in their organizations, and how they can advocate for policies at all levels of government; how to make health services sustainable; how to design healthy, sustainable communities; and how to support action in communities, nationally and globally.
Contributing authors are drawn from the Met Office, the Indian Institute of Public Health in Hyderabad, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the climate and Health Council, the Faculty of Public Health, the University of the West of England, Sustrans, Natural England, the National Social Marketing Centre, Brunel University, the National Health Service Sustainable Development Unit and the Health Protection Agency.
Contents: Foreword • Acknowledgements • Introduction • Part I: Information: 1. Greenhouse Gas Emissions - The Hard Facts 2. Climate Change is Deadly - The Health Impacts of Climate Change 3. Health and the Natural Environment 4. The Health Benefits of Action on Climate Change Part II: Action: 5. Leadership: How to Influence National and International Policy 6. How to Help to Plan a Healthy, Sustainable, Low-carbon Community 7. How You Can Make a Real Difference 8. How to Help People to Change Behaviour 9. How to Take Action in the Community 10. How to Help Organizations to Take Action 11. How Health Services Can Act 12. How to Prepare for the Health Effects of Climate Change • Index
ISBN - 9781844077281
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Pages : 400
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