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An Approach to Developing Local Climate Change Environmental Public Health Indicators, Vulnerability Assessments, and Projections of Future Impacts

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  • Alternative Title:
    J Environ Public Health
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    Environmental public health indicators (EPHIs) are used by local, state, and federal health agencies to track the status of environmental hazards; exposure to those hazards; health effects of exposure; and public health interventions designed to reduce or prevent the hazard, exposure, or resulting health effect. Climate and health EPHIs have been developed at the state, federal, and international levels. However, they are also needed at the local level to track variations in community vulnerability and to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions designed to enhance community resilience. This review draws on a guidance document developed by the U.S. Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists' State Environmental Health Indicators Collaborative climate change working group to present a three-tiered approach to develop local climate change EPHIs. Local climate change EPHIs can assist local health departments (LHDs) in implementing key steps of the 10 essential public health services and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Building Resilience Against Climate Effects framework. They also allow LHDs to incorporate climate-related trends into the larger health department planning process and can be used to perform vulnerability assessments which can be leveraged to ensure that interventions designed to address climate change do not exacerbate existing health disparities.
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  • Source:
    J Environ Public Health. 2014; 2014.
  • Pubmed ID:
    25349621
  • Pubmed Central ID:
    PMC4199073
  • Document Type:
    Journal Article
  • Funding:
    5U38HM000414-05/HM/NCHM CDC HHS/United States
  • Place as Subject:
    United States
  • Volume:
    2014
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    urn:sha256:682ad408504603c4304224b0a2cebb5b11da04b0237ef4b4a1d8e4e5cc42876b
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