Toward an integrated system of climate change and human health indicators: a conceptual framework
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Toward an integrated system of climate change and human health indicators: a conceptual framework

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  • Journal Title:
    Climatic Change
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    OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)
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    Environmental health indicators are helpful for tracking and communicating complex health trends, informing science and policy decisions, and evaluating public health actions. When provided on a national scale, they can help inform the general public, policymakers, and public health professionals about important trends in exposures and how well public health systems are preventing those exposures from causing adverse health outcomes. There is a growing need to understand national trends in exposures and health outcomes associated with climate change and the effectiveness of climate adaptation strategies for health. To date, most indicators for health implications of climate change have been designed as independent, individual metrics. This approach fails to take into account how exposure-outcome pathways for climate-attributable health outcomes involve multiple, interconnected components. We propose reframing climate change and health indicators as a linked system of indicators, which can be described as follows: upstream climate drivers affect environmental states, which then determine human exposures, which ultimately lead to health outcomes; these climate-related risks are modified by population vulnerabilities and adaptation strategies. We apply this new conceptual framework to three illustrative climate-sensitive health outcomes and associated exposure-outcome pathways: pollen allergies and asthma, West Nile virus infection, and vibriosis.
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    Climatic Change, 166(3-4)
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    0165-0009;1573-1480;
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  • Publisher:
    Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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    Journal Article
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    CC BY
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