Climate Change & Rural Child Health
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-61122-640-9 (ISBN)
Over the past 60 years, the world has seen gradual and hard-won progress in reducing child mortality and improving the lives of opportunities of children. Some of this is attributable to medical science, much of it to simple but effective public health measures. Even though 24,000 children continue to die each day from preventable causes, this represents a dramatic improvement, and progress continues to be made. Climate change threatens to undo all of this progress, and wipe out the gains of decades. The threat of rising sea levels, the potential loss of productive farmland and the potential threat to water supplies are all profound concerns, and threaten the well-being of children and communities around the world. This book examines the connection between climate action and the future of childrens' health.
Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc, (Medical Director, Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Adolescent Medicine, KY Childrens Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Lexington, Kentucky, US; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Centers, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel; School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, US)
Foreword; Introduction: Climate change & rural child health; Climate change impacts will be pervasive; Climate & child health in rural areas of low & middle income countries; Protecting our health & environment; Impact of global climate change on childrens' health & well-being; Climate change & child health in Australia; Warming up to the embodied context of First Nations child health research; Healthy children & a healthy planet: A role for education; Climate change & diarrhoeal disease: Perspectives for development policies; Flooding & infectious disease in rural children; Climate change effects on trematode & nematode diseases affecting children in rural areas of developing countries; Impacts of climate change on aeroallergens & allergic respiratory diseases in children in rural areas; Challenges & solutions in the provision of health to the rural Bedouin population in southern Israel; Meat, climate change & global child health; Climate adversity: Yet another stressor for rural adolescents; The effect of climate change on children living on Pacific Islands; From typhoid to tsunamis: Samoan children in a changing world; Social-ecological resilience & Inuit child health; The global financial crisis, climate change & rural child health; Australia, "lucky country" or "climate change canary": Her children's future; Index.
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 260 x 180 mm |
| Gewicht | 682 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-61122-640-6 / 1611226406 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-61122-640-9 / 9781611226409 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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