Climate Silence on the Web Sites of US Health Departments

Autor: Howard Frumkin, Connie Roser-Renouf, Edward PhD M. P. H. Maibach
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: American Journal of Public Health. 110:1121-1122
ISSN: 1541-0048
0090-0036
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2020.305791
Popis: [ ]what should that content be? WHY THE LACK OF CLIMATE CONTENT The people who staff the nation's health departments and manage their Web sites are neither lazy nor incompetent Structural, budgetary, and, in some cases, legal changes are needed to enable environmental health sections to transcend their traditional sanitarian siloes (taking on not just climate but also housing, transportation, greenspace, and other 21st-century environmental health issues) 1,2 * Lack of content: WHAT SHOULD BE SAID ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE Research has shown that the five most important climate change facts for members of the public to understand are 1 it's real (our climate is changing, rapidly), 2 it's us (primarily our fossil fuel use and deforestation), 3 experts agree (97% or more of the experts, based on overwhelming evidence, are convinced that humancaused climate change is happening),4 4 it's bad (climate change is harming us in many ways), and 5 there's hope (there are actions we can take to protect ourselves and our climate) 5 Public health voices can and should reinforce that it's real, it's us, and experts agree, and we must also take the lead in explaining how it's bad for our health (including who is most likely to be harmed) and why there's hope-because the most important actions that must be taken will help stabilize our climate and thereby avert future harm, and they will help clean our air and water and improve our health, locally, as soon as we take them
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