Climate change and population health research in China: Knowledge gaps and further directions

Advances in Climate Change Research

Xiao-Ming Shi¹  Qi-Yong Liu²  Peng Bi³ 

[1] Corresponding author.;National Institute of Environmental Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China;School of Public Health, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia;

关键词: Climate change;    Population health;    China;    Future direction;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Climate change and its impact on population health have been well explored in China in recent years, especially health risk assessments such as studying its impact on the transmission and development of climate-sensitive infectious diseases and non-communicable diseases. However, knowledge gaps including using morbidity as health indicators (e.g. hospitalisations, ED visits, and ambulance call-outs), identifying disease attributable contributions to climate variability and burden of diseases due to climate change, calculating related healthcare costs, and developing climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies need to be addressed. Future research directions could focus on both mitigation and health adaptation studies, such as exploring active transportation and green hospitals, studying health co-benefits, identifying vulnerable populations, prioritizing resource allocation, building healthcare capacity and capability, evaluating intervention effect, developing tailored risk communication strategies and community health education packages for vulnerable communities in the context of climate change.

【 授权许可】

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