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The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action.
Lancet
November 2024
Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK.
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- The world is nearing the critical threshold of 1.5°C warming, with 2023 recording an average temperature rise of 1.45°C since pre-industrial times, leading to severe climate-related impacts.
- The Countdown collaboration, formed to assess the health impacts of climate change post-Paris Agreement, involves over 300 experts analyzing data and trends annually.
- The 2024 report highlights troubling increases in climate-related health risks, such as a staggering 167% rise in heat-related deaths among seniors, indicating worsening conditions affecting wellbeing globally.
The 2023 Latin America report of the Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for health-centred climate-resilient development.
Lancet Reg Health Am
May 2024
Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK.
In 2023, a series of climatological and political events unfolded, partly driving forward the global climate and health agenda while simultaneously exposing important disparities and vulnerabilities to climate-related events. On the policy front, a significant step forward was marked by the inaugural Health Day at COP28, acknowledging the profound impacts of climate change on health. However, the first-ever Global Stocktake showed an important gap between the current progress and the targets outlined in the Paris Agreement, underscoring the urgent need for further and decisive action.
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- The GBD 2021 study aims to quantify the health impacts of 88 risk factors across 204 countries from 1990 to 2021, helping to inform public health policies.
- The analysis utilized over 54,000 data sources to assess 631 risk-outcome pairs, determining how specific risk factors contribute to various health issues.
- By calculating relative risks and population attributable fractions, the study provides insights into the disease burden tied to each risk factor, measured in disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs).
Background: Detailed, comprehensive, and timely reporting on population health by underlying causes of disability and premature death is crucial to understanding and responding to complex patterns of disease and injury burden over time and across age groups, sexes, and locations. The availability of disease burden estimates can promote evidence-based interventions that enable public health researchers, policy makers, and other professionals to implement strategies that can mitigate diseases. It can also facilitate more rigorous monitoring of progress towards national and international health targets, such as the Sustainable Development Goals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Regular, detailed reporting on population health by underlying cause of death is fundamental for public health decision making. Cause-specific estimates of mortality and the subsequent effects on life expectancy worldwide are valuable metrics to gauge progress in reducing mortality rates. These estimates are particularly important following large-scale mortality spikes, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
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