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resource: Climate Change Impacts on Disaster and Emergency Medicine Focusing on Mitigation Disruptive Effects: an International Perspective
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  label: *Climate Change
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  label: *Disasters
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  label: *Emergency Medicine
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  label: *Internationality
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  label: European perspective
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  label: Humans
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  label: climate change
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  label: disaster preparedness
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  label: emergency medicine
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  label: health
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  label: management

Climate Change Impacts on Disaster and Emergency Medicine Focusing on Mitigation Disruptive Effects: an International Perspective
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abstract: In recent decades, climate change has been responsible for an increase in the average temperature of the troposphere and of the oceans, with consequences on the frequency and intensity of many extreme weather phenomena. Climate change’s effects on natural disasters can be expected to induce a rise in humanitarian crises. In addition, it will surely impact the population’s long-term general health, especially among the most fragile. There are foreseeable health risks that both ambulatory care organizations and hospitals will face as global temperatures rise. These risks include the geographic redistribution of infectious (particularly zoonotic) diseases, an increase in cardiac and respiratory illnesses, as well as a host of other health hazards. Some of these risks have been detailed for most developed countries as well as for some developing countries. Using these existing risk assessments as a template, organizational innovations as well as implementation strategies should be proposed to mitigate the disruptive effects of these health risks on emergency departments and by extension, reduce the negative impact of climate change on the populations they serve.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph15071379
source: 29966379
creator: Person
author list: Person
is part of: Issue
  date: 2018-07-04
  volume: 15
  issue: 7
  is part of: Int J Environ Res Public Health
    type: Journal
    issn: 1660-4601 (Electronic) 1661-7827 (Print) 1660-4601 (Linking)

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surname: Sarasin

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given name: P.
surname: Arcos Gonzalez

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