U.S. National Report on the Human Environment

U.S. National Report on the Human Environment
Author: United States. Department of State. Bureau of International Scientific and Technological Affairs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1971
Genre: Environmental policy
ISBN:

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U.s. National Report on the Human Environment

U.s. National Report on the Human Environment
Author: United States. Department of State. Bureau of International Scientific and Technological Affairs
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1971
Genre:
ISBN:

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U.S. National Report on the Human Environment: Prepared For: United Nations Conference on Human Environment, June 1972, Stockholm, Sweden

U.S. National Report on the Human Environment: Prepared For: United Nations Conference on Human Environment, June 1972, Stockholm, Sweden
Author: United States. Department of State. Bureau of International Scientific and Technological Affairs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 53
Release: 1971
Genre: Environmental policy
ISBN:

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Review of the Draft Interagency Report on the Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States

Review of the Draft Interagency Report on the Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2015-08-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309377307

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The U.S. National Climate Assessment identified a number of ways in which climate change is affecting, and is likely to affect, people, infrastructure, natural resources, and ecosystems. Those impacts, in turn, are increasingly having important current and potential future consequences for human health. There is a need to probe more deeply into how climate change impacts on the environment can create environmental stressors that, in turn, are having and/or have the potential to have significant impact on human health in a number of dimensions. In response to this need, the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) has initiated an interagency Scientific Assessment on the Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States. The Assessment is intended to inform public health authorities, other planning and policy entities, and the general public. Review of the Draft Interagency Report on the Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States evaluates the scientific basis, findings, and key messages of the USGCRP Draft Assessment. This report offers a number of overarching suggestions on how the USGCRP report authors can enhance their identification and assessment of the science and better communicate their conclusions to all of their target audiences. These recommendations this help the Assessment to play a significant role in continued efforts to examine and explore the impacts of climate change on human health.

U.S. Health in International Perspective

U.S. Health in International Perspective
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2013-04-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0309264146

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The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. Although life expectancy and survival rates in the United States have improved dramatically over the past century, Americans live shorter lives and experience more injuries and illnesses than people in other high-income countries. The U.S. health disadvantage cannot be attributed solely to the adverse health status of racial or ethnic minorities or poor people: even highly advantaged Americans are in worse health than their counterparts in other, "peer" countries. In light of the new and growing evidence about the U.S. health disadvantage, the National Institutes of Health asked the National Research Council (NRC) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a panel of experts to study the issue. The Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries examined whether the U.S. health disadvantage exists across the life span, considered potential explanations, and assessed the larger implications of the findings. U.S. Health in International Perspective presents detailed evidence on the issue, explores the possible explanations for the shorter and less healthy lives of Americans than those of people in comparable countries, and recommends actions by both government and nongovernment agencies and organizations to address the U.S. health disadvantage.