Global Climate Change and Public Health (eBook)

Kent E. Pinkerton, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Professor In-Residence, Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis.  He is also Director of the Center for Health and the Environment at the John Muir Institute of the Environment.  Dr. Pinkerton’s research is on health effects of environmental air pollutants on lung structure and function, the interaction of gases and airborne particles within specific sites and cell populations of the lungs in acute and chronic lung injury, and the effects of environmental tobacco smoke on lung growth and development.  He is also a member of the Assembly for Environmental and Occupational Health of the American Thoracic Society. William N. Rom, MD, MPH, has been at NYU since 1989 as Professor of Medicine and Environmental Medicine and Director of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. The Division has 75 full-time faculty and over 25 fellows. His research is on early detection of lung cancer, environmental lung disease, TB/AIDS, and air pollution. He and his faculty have been awarded over $125M in NIH and CDC grants over the years. He is editor of 4 editions of Environmental and Occupational Medicine and 2 editions of Tuberculosis. He has published over 200 peer reviewed articles. He Chairs the American Thoracic Society's Environmental Health Policy Committee that advocates science-based air pollution standards. He has been a Fellow in the Department of Interior on National Parks and was a Senior Investigator at the NHLBI, NIH for 6 years deciphering the mechanisms of asbestosis. He was a Legislative Fellow for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and wrote the Family Asthma Bill, the Caribbean Wilderness Act, and the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Bill. He was the Founder and Director of the Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Utah.

1. Introduction:  Consequences of Global Warming to the Public’s HealthWilliam N. Rom and Kent Pinkerton 2. Climate Variability and Change Data and Information for Global Public HealthJuli Trtanj 3. Climate Change: Overview of Data Sources, Observed and Predicted Temperature Changes, and Impacts on Public and Environmental HealthDavid H. Levinson and Christopher J. Fettig 4. Eyewitness to Global WarmingWill Steger and Nicole Rom 5. California and Climate ChangesRupa Basu 6. Heat Waves and Rising Temperatures: Human Health Impacts and the Determinants of VulnerabilityHelene G. Margolis  7. Climate, Air Quality and Allergy: Emerging Methods for Detecting LinkagesPatrick L. Kinney, Perry E. Sheffield, and Kate R. Weinberger 8. The Human Health Co-benefits of Air Quality Improvements Associated with Climate Change MitigationGeorge D. Thurston and Michelle L. Bell 9. Asthma, Hayfever, Pollen, and Climate ChangeAnthony M. Szema 10. Dengue Fever and Climate ChangeLauren Cromar and Kevin Cromar 11. Impact of Climate Change on Vector-Borne Disease in the AmazonWilliam Pan, OraLee Branch, and Benjamin Zaitchik 12. Climate Variability and Change: Food, Water and Societal ImpactsJonathan Patz 13. Household Air Pollution from Cookstoves: Impacts on Health and ClimateWilliam J Martin II, John W. Hollingsworth, and Veerabhadran Ramanathan 14. Biomass Fuel and Lung Diseases: An Indian PerspectiveRajendra Prasad and Rajiv Garg 15. The effects of climate change and air pollution on children and mothers’ healthRoya Kelishadi and Parinaz Poursafa 16. Climate Change and Public Health in Small Island States and Caribbean CountriesMuge Akpinar-Elci and Hugh Sealy 17. Global Climate Change, Desertification, and Its Consequences in Turkey and the Middle East Hasan Bayram and Ayşe Bilge Öztürk 18. Assessing the Health Risks of Climate ChangeKristie Ebi 19. Federal Programs in Climate Change and Health ResearchMaya Levine and John Balbus 20. Management of Climate Change Adaptation at the United States Centers for Disease Control and PreventionJeremy Hess, Gino Marinucci, Paul J. Schramm, Arie Manangan, and George Luber 21. Public Health and Climate Programs at the U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyErika N. Sasser and C.A. (Andy) Miller 22. California’s Cap-and-Trade ProgramJohn R. Balmes