Resources on Climate Change
In lieu of the usual annotated bibliography, created by Laura Larsson, we offer this listing of resources for articles in the fall/winter 2008 issue of Northwest Public Health.
Public Health Leadership
Public Health Functions Steering Committee. Public Health in America. Fall 1994.
http://www.health.gov/phfunctions/public.htm.
Frumkin H, Hess J, Luber G, Maililay J, McGeehin M. Climate change: The public health response. American Journal of Public Health. 2008;98(3):435-445.
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/3/435
Gallup News Service. Gallup environment poll. March 11- 14, 2007.
http://www.pollingreport.com/enviro.htm.
Epstein PR. Climate change: healthy solutions. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2007;115(4):A180-A181
http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2007/115-4/editorial.html
Kemm J, Parry J, Palmer S. Health Impact Assessments: Concepts, Theory, Techniques and Applications. New York, NY: Oxford University Press; 2004.
Veerman JI., Barendregt JJ, Mackenbach JP. Quantitative health impact assessment: current practice and future directions. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2005;59:361–370.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15831683
Bernard SM, Ebi KL. Comments on the process and product of the Health Impacts Assessment Component of the National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and changes for the United States. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2001;109:177-184.
http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2001/suppl-2/div1.html
Ebi KL, Gamble JL. Summary of a workshop on the development of health models and scenarios: strategies for the future. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2005;113:335-338.
http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2004/7380/abstract.html
Overview story
Bernard SM, McGeehin MA. , 2004: Municipal heat wave response plans. American Journal of Public Health. 2004: 94(9):1520-1522.
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/94/9/1520
Curriero FC, Patz JA, Rose JB, Lele S. The association between extreme precipitation and waterborne disease outbreaks in the United States, 1948-1994. American Journal of Public Health. 2001: 91(8);1194-1199.
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/91/8/1194
Thomas MK, Charron DF, Waltner-Toews D, Schuster C, Maarouf AR, Holt JD. A role of high impact weather events in waterborne disease outbreaks in Canada, 1975–2001. International Journal of Environmental Health Research. 2006: 16(3);167-180.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a745946930~db=all~order=page
Disaster deaths
Combs, D.L., L.E. Quenemoen, R.G. Parrish and J.H. Davis (1999). Assessing disaster-attributed mortality: development and application of a definition and classification matrix. International Journal of Epidemiology. 28(6). pp. 1124–1129.
http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/28/6/1124
Jones, T.S. et al. (1982) ‘Morbidity and Mortality Associated with the July 1980 Heat Wave in St. Louis and Kansas City, MO’. Journal of the American Medical Association. 247(24). pp. 3327–3331.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/247/24/3327
Kilbourne, E.M., K. Choi, T.S. Jones and S.B. Thacker (1982). Risk Factors for Heatstroke—A Case-Control Study. Journal of the American Medical Association. 247(24). pp. 3332–3336.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/247/24/3332
Rappaport, E. (1993) ‘Preliminary Report: Hurricane Andrew 16–28 August, 1992’.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/1992andrew.html
Semenza, J.C. et al. (1996) ‘Heat-Related Deaths during the July 1995 Heat Wave in Chicago’. New England Journal of Medicine. 335(2). pp. 84–90.
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/335/2/84
Thacker MT, Lee R, Sabogal RI, Henderson A. Overview of deaths associated with natural events, United States, 1979-2004. Disasters. 2008 Jun;32(2):303-15.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18380857
Weisskopf, M.G. et al. (2002) ‘Heat Wave Morbidity and Mortality, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1999 vs. 1995: An Improved Response?’ American Journal of Public Health. 92(5). pp. 830–833.
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/92/5/830
Air quality
Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change/, Field, C.B., L.D. Mortsch,, M. Brklacich, D.L. Forbes, P. Kovacs, J.A. Patz, S.W. Running and M.J. Scott, 2007: North America. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 617-652.
Impact of Potential Future Climate Change on Regional Ozone and Fine Particulate Matter Levels in the United States, Georgia Tech, NESCAUM, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2007
http://www.nescaum.org/documents/impact-of-potential-future-climate-change-on-regional-ozone-and-fine-particulate-matter-levels-in-the-usa
Impacts of global climate change and emissions on regional ozone and fine particulate matter concentrations over the United States, Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 112, D14312, doi:10.1029/2006JD008262, 2007
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2006JD008262.shtml
Strategy for the Development of an Airshed Management Program for the Treasure Valley, (DEQ Publication, September 2001: pdf 1.7 mb, 47 pages)
http://www.deq.idaho.gov/air/data_reports/reports/ada_co/airshed_management_entire.pdf
Wildfires
Betchley C, Koenig JQ, van Belle G, et al. Pulmonary function and respiratory symptoms in forest firefighters. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 31: 503-509, 1997.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/49371/abstract
Kunzli N, Avol E, Gauderman J, et al. Health effects of the 2003 Southern California wildfires on children. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 174: 1221-1226, 2006.
http://ajrccm.atsjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/174/11/1221
Mott JA, Meyer P, Mannino D, et al. Wildland forest fire smoke: health effects and intervention evaluation, Hoopa, California, 1999. Western Journal of Medicine. 176:157-162, 2002.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1071703&rendertype=abstract
Tan WC, Qiu D, Liam BL, et al, The human bone marrow response to acute air pollution caused by forest fires. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 161: 1213-1217, 2000.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10764314
Wildlife monitoring
Heryford AG, Seys SA. Cattle and Campylobacter-Risk Factors in Rural Environments. Northwest Public Health 2003;20(1):10-11
http://www.nwpublichealth.org/docs/nph/s2003/seys-heryford_s2003.pdf
Zoonoses and Communicable Diseases Common to Man and Animals. 3rd edition, P.N. Acha, B. Szyfres (Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, 2001, 2003).
Global Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events: Understanding the Contributions to Infectious Disease Emergence, (2008) National Academies of Sciences/Institute of Medicine.
Deadly Dozen: Wildlife Diseases in the Age of Climate Change, Wildlife Conservation Society
http://www.wcs.org/deadly-dozen/wcs_deadly_dozen
Built environment
Western Climate Initiative. WCI was created to identify, evaluate and implement collective and cooperative ways to reduce greenhouse gases in the region, focusing on a market-based cap-and-trade system.
http://www.westernclimateinitiative.org/
U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Center
http://www.usmayors.org/climateprotection/about.htm
Seattle Climate Action Now
http://seattlecan.org/
Preparing for the Impacts of Climate Change in Washington, preliminary draft December 21, 2007
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/climatechange/CATdocs/122107_2_preparation.pdf
Centers for Disease Control: Impact of the Built Environment on Health
http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/publications/factsheets/ImpactoftheBuiltEnvironmentonHealth.pdf
The Smart Growth movement
http://www.smartgrowth.org/about/default.asp
Design for Active Living Among Adults, Active Living Research, Spring 2008
http://activelivingresearch.org/files/Active_Adults.pdf
Growing Cooler: the Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change, Reid Ewing, Keith Bartholomew, Steve Winkelman, Jerry Walters, and Don Chen. Urban Land Institute, October 2007
http://docs.nrdc.org/cities/cit_07092001A.pdf
NACCHO survey
http://www.naccho.org/topics/environmental/climatechange/upload/Are-we-ready_14_view.pdf
Cascade Agenda Cities Program, which applies much of the "smart growth" concepts to cities in the Puget Sound region. It must also be noted that the Cascade Agenda Cities Advisory Committee have no public health representation.
http://www.cascadeagenda.com/cities
Northwest Region at a Glance
Alaska Administrative Order 238
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/admin-orders/238.html
Alaska Climate Impact Assessment Commission Final Report
http://housemajority.org/coms/cli/cli_finalreport_20080301.pdf
Alaska Municipal League Communities Conference on Climate Change in conjunction with the Alaska Forum on the Environment
http://www.akml.org/conference/climatechange/
Idaho Climate Impact Assessment Commission executive order
http://gov.idaho.gov/mediacenter/execorders/eo07/eo_2007_05.html
Montana Climate Change Action Plan
http://www.mtclimatechange.us/ewebeditpro/items/O127F14041.pdf
Western Climate Initiative
http://www.westernclimateinitiative.org/index.cfm
Oregon Strategy for Greenhouse Gas Reductions
http://www.sustainableoregon.net/documents/climate/Oregon_Strategy_Final_Report.pdf
Oregon "Final Report to the Governor: A Framework for Addressing Rapid Climate Change: in Report to the Governor", January 2008
http://oregon.gov/ENERGY/GBLWRM/docs/CCIGReport08Web.pdf
Washington Executive Order 07-02
http://www.governor.wa.gov/execorders/eo_07-02.pdf
Washington’s 2008 actions
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/climatechange/2008_ScheduleActions.htm
King County has set a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 80% below current levels by 2050.
http://www.metrokc.gov/kcdot/aboutus/climate.stm
King County climate plan
http://www.metrokc.gov/exec/news/2007/pdf/ClimatePlan.pdf
The City of Seattle convened the US Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Summit in late 2007, with a Climate Protection Agreement now signed by more than 720 US Mayors.
http://www.seattle.gov/mayor/climateSummit2007.htm
Wyoming State Climate Office
http://www.wrds.uwyo.edu/sco/climate/climate_change.html
The current CDC Policy on Climate Change and Public Health seems to stay in the comfort zone of addressing priority health actions that relate to data tracking, modeling health effects, emergency preparedness, workforce development, and general population communications strategies.
http://www.cdc.gov/climatechange/policy.htm
Alaska’s Vulnerable Villages
Alaska Climate Change Strategy, Adaptation Advisory Group
http://www.climatechange.alaska.gov/aag/aag.html
USGS, Alaska Science Center Providing Timely, Relevant, and Impartial Study of the Landscape, Natural Resources, and Natural Hazards for Alaska and Our Nation
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2007/3019/
GAO: Alaska Native Villages: Most Are Affected by Flooding and Erosion, but Few Qualify for Federal Assistance
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04142.pdf
