Confronting the health risks of climate change: integrating science and public he

描述(申请人提供)：该项目的总体目标是评估气候变化对太平洋西北地区人类健康的影响，并协助当地社区努力减轻健康风险。项目设计是基于研究到实践的模式。我们气候与健康科学团队的研究将涉及分析气候变化的两个关键环境健康后果的死亡率和发病率风险：极端高温事件的增加和空气污染的恶化。之所以选择这些环境健康危害，是因为它们可以进行定量的风险分析，并且通过我们之前的研究表明，它们对太平洋西北部的健康产生了重大影响。我们的工作假设是，当前和未来与气候有关的健康影响的量化证据将提高公共卫生信息的可信度，从而支持地方卫生部门努力传播风险，并为他们提供可用于确定应对气候变化的新资源的信息。我们将使用这些科学分析来制作针对当地社区(即邮政编码级别、县级别)的翻译科学产品。我们的健康风险预测的特殊性应足以使当地公共卫生官员能够确定和解决其社区中弱势人口的需求。我们的公共卫生实践团队将同时为气候变化的这些与健康相关的方面制定沟通战略，与公共卫生官员合作，让这些社区的决策者、医疗保健提供者、部落议会和公众参与并支持他们制定新的计划和政策，以防止或减轻气候变化的健康风险。将使用形成性研究模式来生成关于利益攸关方在气候变化方面的当前做法的信息。我们还将利用现有的应急准备和反应计划来应对与气候有关的健康风险。这些努力的目标是推动这些社区的项目启动和政策变化。我们的科学和实践团队在为期三年的项目期内的合作将产生协同效应，我们相信，这将1)在这些社区面对气候变化的挑战并采取具体步骤应对其后果时，对它们产生实质性的好处，2)作为一个可推广到广泛社区和与气候相关的健康风险的模式。 公共卫生相关性：该项目的总体目标是评估气候变化对太平洋西北地区人类健康的影响，并协助当地社区努力减轻健康风险。我们的科学和实践团队在为期三年的项目期内的合作将产生协同效应，我们相信，这将1)在这些社区面对气候变化的挑战并采取具体步骤应对其后果时，对它们产生实质性的好处，2)作为一个可推广到广泛社区和与气候相关的健康风险的模式。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall objective of this project is to evaluate the impact of climate change on human health in the Pacific Northwest region and to assist local communities in their efforts to mitigate health risks. The project design is based on a research-to-practice model. The research of our Climate and Health Science Team will involve analysis of mortality and morbidity risks for two key environmental health consequences of climate change: increases in extreme heat events and worsening air pollution. These environmental health hazards have been selected because they are amenable to quantitative risk analysis and have been shown, through our previous research, to produce significant health impacts in the Pacific Northwest. It is our working hypothesis that quantitative evidence of current and future climate-related health impacts will improve the credibility of public health messages, thereby supporting local health departments in their efforts to communicate risk, and providing them with information that can be used to identify new resources for addressing climate change. We will use these scientific analyses to produce translational science products that will be specific to local communities (i.e., zip code level, county level). The specificity of our health risk predictions should be sufficient to allow local public health officials to identify and address the needs of vulnerable populations in their communities. Our Public Health Practice Team will concurrently develop communications strategies for these health-related aspects of climate change, working with public health officials to engage and support decision makers, health care providers, tribal councils, and the public in these communities as they develop new programs and policies that prevent or mitigate the health risks of climate change. A formative research model will be used to generate information on current practices of stakeholders in regard to climate change. We will also take advantage of existing emergency preparedness and response plans to address climate-related health risks. The goal of these efforts is to motivate program initiation and policy change in these communities. The collaboration of our science and practice teams over the three-year project period will produce a synergism that we believe will 1) be of substantial benefit to these communities as they confront the challenges of climate change and take concrete steps to address its consequences, and 2) serve as a model that can be generalized to a wide range of communities and climate-related health risks. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The overall objective of this project is to evaluate the impact of climate change on human health in the Pacific Northwest region and to assist local communities in their efforts to mitigate health risks. The collaboration of our science and practice teams over the three-year project period will produce a synergism that we believe will 1) be of substantial benefit to these communities as they confront the challenges of climate change and take concrete steps to address its consequences, and 2) serve as a model that can be generalized to a wide range of communities and climate-related health risks.