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

应对气候变化的健康风险：科学与公众的结合

• 批准号: 7785527
• 负责人: RICHARD Arnold FENSKE
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-30 至 2012-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7785527
• 关键词: Confronting; health; risks; climate; change

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.

描述（由申请人提供）：本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。我们的气候和健康科学小组的研究将涉及分析气候变化对环境健康造成的两个主要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风险分析，并且通过我们以前的研究表明，它们对太平洋西北地区的健康产生了重大影响。我们的工作假设是，当前和未来与气候相关的健康影响的定量证据将提高公共卫生信息的可信度，从而支持地方卫生部门沟通风险的努力，并为他们提供可用于确定应对气候变化新资源的信息。我们将使用这些科学分析来生产翻译科学产品，这些产品将针对当地社区（例如，邮政编码级别，县级）。我们的健康风险预测的特殊性应该足以让当地公共卫生官员识别和解决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制定气候变化与健康相关方面的沟通策略，与公共卫生官员合作，参与并支持这些社区的决策者、卫生保健提供者、部落理事会和公众，因为他们制定了预防或减轻气候变化带来的健康风险的新项目和政策。将使用形成性研究模型来生成有关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。这些努力的目标是激励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三年项目期间的合作将产生协同作用，我们认为，这将1)在这些社区面对气候变化的挑战并采取具体步骤解决其后果时，对这些社区有实质性的好处，2)可作为一种模式推广到广泛的社区和与气候有关的健康风险。