Impatti, adattamento e vulnerabilita Le cause e le responsabilita dei cambiamenti climatici sono state trattate sul numero di ottobre della rivista Cda. Approfondiamo l’argomento presentando il documento: “Cambiamenti climatici 2007: impatti, adattamento e vulnerabilita” votato ad aprile 2007 dal secondo gruppo di lavoro del Comitato Intergovernativo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). Si tratta del secondo di tre documenti che compongono il quarto rapporto sui cambiamenti climatici.

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Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.

Sustainable Development Goals

Health promotion programs often lack a clearly specified theoretical foundation or are based on narrowly conceived conceptual models. For example, lifestyle modification programs typically emphasize individually focused behavior change strategies, while neglecting the environmental underpinnings of health and illness. This article compares three distinct, yet complementary, theoretical perspectives on health promotion: behavioral change, environmental enhancement, and social ecological models. Key strengths and limitations of each perspective are examined, and core principles of social ecological theory are used to derive practical guidelines for designing and evaluating community health promotion programs. Directions for future health promotion research are discussed, including studies examining the role of intermediaries (e.g., corporate decision-makers, legislators) in promoting the well-being of others, and those evaluating the duration and scope of intervention outcomes.

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Translating social ecological theory into guidelines for community health promotion.

해외산업간호정보 - 미국 산업안전보건연구원(National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) 소개

Focusing on the examples of Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Zaire, this text demonstrates how African rulers hold on to power while severed from foreign aid and subjected to collapsing economies and disappearing bureaucracies.

Warlord Politics and African States

FOREWORD SECTION I: WAR AS PART OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH AGENDA 1. Arms and Public Health: A Global Perspective 2. Children, Wars and the Responsibility of the International Community SECTION II: THE IMPACT OF WAR ON PUBLIC HEALTH 3. The Human Consequences of War 4. The Impact of War on Human Rights 5. The Environmental Consequences of War SECTION III: EFFECTS OF WEAPONS SYSTEMS OF PUBLIC HEALTH 6. The Public Health Effects of the Use of Nuclear Weapons 7. The Public Health Effects of the Use of Chemical Weapons 8. The Public Health Effects of Biological Weapons 9. Environmental and Health Effects of Weapons Production, Testing, and Maintenance 10. The Public Health Effects of Landmines: Long Term Consequences for Civilians SECTION IV: EFFECTS OF WAR AND MILITARISM ON POPULATIONS 11. The Impact of Militarism on Civilian Populations 12. The Psychological Effects of War on Children 13. The Impact of War on Women 14. Displaced Persons and War SECTION V: THE IMPACT OF SPECIFIC MILITARY CONFLICTS ON PUBLIC HEALTH 15. Public Health and the Vietanm War 16. Public Health and the War in Central America 17. Public Health and the Persian Gulf War SECTION VI: THE ROLES OF PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONAL AND ORGANIZATION 18. The Roles of Health Professional in War 19. The Roles of Nongovernmental Organizations in Responding to Health Needs Created by War 20. Effective Humanitarian Aid: Our Only Hope of Intervention in Civil War SECTION VII: CAN WAR AND ITS PUBLIC HEALTH IMPACTS BE PREVENTED? 21. Education for Preventing War 22. Preventing Nuclear War 23. Nurses and the Prevention of War: Public Health Nurses and the Peace Movement 24. The Future of Peace Keeping 25. Mediation: Perspectives from the Medical Peace Movement 26. Preventing War and Its Public Health Consequences: Roles of Public Health Professionals

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.2307/3343530.pdf

War and public health

The environmental and health consequences of climate change, which disproportionately affect low-income countries and poor people in high-income countries, profoundly affect human rights and social justice. Environmental consequences include increased temperature, excess precipitation in some areas and droughts in others, extreme weather events, and increased sea level. These consequences adversely affect agricultural production, access to safe water, and worker productivity, and, by inundating land or making land uninhabitable and uncultivatable, will force many people to become environmental refugees. Adverse health effects caused by climate change include heat-related disorders, vector-borne diseases, foodborne and waterborne diseases, respiratory and allergic disorders, malnutrition, collective violence, and mental health problems. These environmental and health consequences threaten civil and political rights and economic, social, and cultural rights, including rights to life, access to safe food and water, health, security, shelter, and culture. On a national or local level, those people who are most vulnerable to the adverse environmental and health consequences of climate change include poor people, members of minority groups, women, children, older people, people with chronic diseases and disabilities, those residing in areas with a high prevalence of climate-related diseases, and workers exposed to extreme heat or increased weather variability. On a global level, there is much inequity, with low-income countries, which produce the least greenhouse gases (GHGs), being more adversely affected by climate change than high-income countries, which produce substantially higher amounts of GHGs yet are less immediately affected. In addition, low-income countries have far less capability to adapt to climate change than high-income countries. Adaptation and mitigation measures to address climate change needed to protect human society must also be planned to protect human rights, promote social justice, and avoid creating new problems or exacerbating existing problems for vulnerable populations.

Climate Change, Human Rights, and Social Justice.

https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673602083551.pdf

Child prostitution: global health burden, research needs, and interventions

Manganese, which enters the body primarily via inhalation, can damage the nervous system and respiratory tract, as well as have other adverse effects. Occupational exposures occur mainly in mining, alloy production, processing, ferro-manganese operations, welding, and work with agrochemicals. Among the neurologic effects is an irreversible parkinsonian-like syndrome. An estimated 500,000 to 1.5 million people in the United States have Parkinson's disease, and physicians need to consider manganese exposure in its differential diagnosis. Since 1837, there have been many reports of cases and case series describing manganese toxicity. More recently, there have been epidemiologic studies of its adverse effects on health. Occupational medicine physicians can play critical roles in preventing the adverse health effects of manganese.

Neurologic effects of manganese in humans: a review.

Occupational health:recognizing and preventing work-related disease and injury , Occupational health:recognizing and preventing work-related disease and injury , کتابخانه مرکزی دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تهران

Barry S. Levy

Papers

War and public health

Climate Change, Human Rights, and Social Justice.

Child prostitution: global health burden, research needs, and interventions

Neurologic effects of manganese in humans: a review.

Occupational health : recognizing and preventing work-related disease and injury