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

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目的总体目标是评估气候变化对西北太平洋地区人类健康的影响，并协助当地社区努力减轻健康风险。该项目设计基于研究实践模型。我们的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风险：极端高温事件的增加和空气污染的恶化。选择这些环境健康危害是因为它们适合定量风险分析，并且通过我们之前的研究表明，它们会对太平洋西北地区产生重大健康影响。我们的工作假设是，当前和未来气候相关健康影响的定量证据将提高公共卫生信息的可信度，从而支持当地卫生部门努力沟通风险，并为他们提供可用于确定应对气候变化的新资源的信息。我们将利用这些科学分析来生产针对当地社区（即邮政编码级别、县级别）的转化科学产品。我们的健康风险预测的特异性应足以使当地公共卫生官员能够确定并满足其社区中弱势群体的需求。我们的公共卫生实践团队将同时针对气候变化的这些与健康相关的方面制定沟通策略，与公共卫生官员合作，吸引和支持这些社区的决策者、医疗保健提供者、部落理事会和公众制定预防或减轻气候变化健康风险的新计划和政策。将使用形成性研究模型来生成有关利益相关者当前在气候变化方面的做法的信息。我们还将利用现有的应急准备和响应计划来应对与气候相关的健康风险。这些努力的目标是激励这些社区的计划启动和政策改变。我们的科学和实践团队在三年项目期间的合作将产生协同效应，我们相信这将：1）在这些社区面临气候变化的挑战并采取具体措施应对其后果时，为这些社区带来巨大利益；2）作为一个可以推广到广泛社区和气候相关健康风险的模型。 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三年项目期间的合作将产生协同效应，我们相信这将：1）在这些社区面临气候变化的挑战并采取具体措施应对其后果时，为这些社区带来巨大利益；2）作为一个可以推广到广泛社区和气候相关健康风险的模型。

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.