Table 1 Overview of some of the literature on the health impacts of extreme climate events
Title | Climate change & … | Author(s) |
|---|---|---|
The public health implications of the Paris agreement: a modelling study | Public health policy | Milner et al. [30] |
The imperative for climate action to protect health | Public health policy | Haines & Ebi [18] |
The 2018 report of the Lancet countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come | Public health policy | Watts et al. [40] |
Impacts of extreme weather events and climate change for health and social care systems | Extreme weather and emergency preparedness | Curtis et al. [10] |
Climate change, extreme weather events, and human health implications in the Asia Pacific region | Extreme weather and emergency preparedness | Hashim et al. [20] |
Projecting heat-related excess mortality under climate change scenarios in China | Heat-related mortality | Yang et al. [45] |
Projections of temperature-related cause-specific mortality under climate change scenarios in a coastal city of China | Heat-related mortality | Gu et al. [17] |
Projections of temperature-related excess mortality under climate change scenarios | Heat-related mortality | Gasparrini et al. [16] |
Effects of air temperature on climate-sensitive mortality and morbidity outcomes among the elderly: a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological evidence | Heat-related mortality | Bunker et al. [6] |
Effect of environmental changes on vegetable and legume yields and nutritional quality | Food and nutrition | Scheelbeek et al. [33] |
Economic implications of climate change impacts on human health through undernourishment | Food and nutrition | Hasegawa et al. [19] |
Analysis and valuation of the health and climate co-benefits of dietary change | Food and nutrition | Springmann [36] |
The need for clean air: the way air pollution and climate change affect allergic rhinitis and asthma | Air pollution also by thermic inversion | Eguiluz-Gracia et al. [12] |
Climate change health and vulnerability in Canadian Northern Aboriginal communities | Indigenous people | Furgal & Seguin [15] |
Vulnerability of indigenous health to climate change: a case study of Uganda’s Batwa Pygmies | Indigenous people | Berrang-Ford et al. [3] |
Climate change and women’s health: impacts and policy directions | Women’s health | Sorensen et al. [35] |
Global climate change and children’s health | Children’s health | Ahdoot & Pacheco [1] |
Examining relationship between climate change and mental health in the Circumpolar North | Mental health | Willox et al. [42] |
Health impacts of climate change and health and social inequalities in the UK | Inequality | Paavola [31] |