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Climate Change and Human Health

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Climate change has profound and wide-ranging effects on human health and health systems, and the impacts of climate change undermine public health advancements. The health sector is mobilizing to protect population health and build climate resilient and sustainable health systems. However, sector-wide cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions are urgently required to preserve our ecological and human systems. The health community plays a critical role in ensuring future population and planetary health through advocacy, policy development, evidence strengthening and health response.

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    Tara Neville, Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Marina Maiero, Arthur Wyns & Maria Neira

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  1. Centre for Multidisciplinary Research in Health Science (MACH), University of Milan, Milan, Italy

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  2. Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwill, Switzerland

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  3. Centre for Multidisciplinary Research in Health Science (MACH), University of Milan, Milan, Italy

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  4. Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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Neville, T., Campbell-Lendrum, D., Maiero, M., Wyns, A., Neira, M. (2023). Climate Change and Human Health. In: Raviglione, M.C.B., Tediosi, F., Villa, S., Casamitjana, N., Plasència, A. (eds) Global Health Essentials. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33851-9_74

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