Tracking the impacts of climate change on human health via indicators : lessons from the Lancet Countdown
Di Napoli, Claudia (University of Reading. Department of Geography and Environmental Science)
McGushin, Alice (University College London. Institute for Global Health)
Romanello, Marina (University College London. Institute for Global Health)
Ayeb-Karlsson, Sonja (United Nations University. Institute for Environment and Human Security)
Cai, Wenjia (Tsinghua University.Department of Earth System Science)
Chambers, Jonathan (University of Geneva. Institute for Environmental Science)
Dasgupta, Shouro (Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici)
Escobar, Luis E. (Virginia Tech. Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation)
Kelman, Ilan (Institute for Global Health, University College London)
Kjellstrom, Tord (Health and Environment International Trust (New Zealand))
Kniveton, Dominic (University of Sussex. School of Global Studies)
Liu, Yang (Emory University. Rollins School of Public Health)
Liu, Zhao (Tsinghua University. Department of Earth System Science)
Lowe, Rachel (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats)
Martinez-Urtaza, Jaime (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Genètica i de Microbiologia)
McMichael, Celia (The University of Melbourne. School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)
Moradi-Lakeh, Maziar (Iran University of Medical Sciences. Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center. Psychosocial Health Research Institute)
Murray, Kris A. (MRC Unit The Gambia At London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Rabbaniha, Mahnaz (Iranian Fisheries Science Research Institute. Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Organisation)
Semenza, Jan C. (University of Heidelberg. Heidelberg Institute of Global Health)
Shi, Liuhua (Emory University. Rollins School of Public Health)
Tabatabaei, Meisam (Henan Agricultural University. Henan Province Forest Resources Sustainable Development and High-value Utilization Engineering Research Center)
Trinanes, Joaquin A. (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Electrónica e Computación)
Vu, Bryan N. (Emory University. Rollins School of Public Health)
Brimicombe, Chloe (University of Reading. Department of Geography and Environmental Science)
Robinson, Elizabeth J. (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment)

Data:	2022
Resum:	Background: In the past decades, climate change has been impacting human lives and health via extreme weather and climate events and alterations in labour capacity, food security, and the prevalence and geographical distribution of infectious diseases across the globe. Climate change and health indicators (CCHIs) are workable tools designed to capture the complex set of interdependent interactions through which climate change is affecting human health. Since 2015, a novel sub-set of CCHIs, focusing on climate change impacts, exposures, and vulnerability indicators (CCIEVIs) has been developed, refined, and integrated by Working Group 1 of the "Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change", an international collaboration across disciplines that include climate, geography, epidemiology, occupation health, and economics. Discussion: This research in practice article is a reflective narrative documenting how we have developed CCIEVIs as a discrete set of quantifiable indicators that are updated annually to provide the most recent picture of climate change's impacts on human health. In our experience, the main challenge was to define globally relevant indicators that also have local relevance and as such can support decision making across multiple spatial scales. We found a hazard, exposure, and vulnerability framework to be effective in this regard. We here describe how we used such a framework to define CCIEVIs based on both data availability and the indicators' relevance to climate change and human health. We also report on how CCIEVIs have been improved and added to, detailing the underlying data and methods, and in doing so provide the defining quality criteria for Lancet Countdown CCIEVIs. Conclusions: Our experience shows that CCIEVIs can effectively contribute to a world-wide monitoring system that aims to track, communicate, and harness evidence on climate-induced health impacts towards effective intervention strategies. An ongoing challenge is how to improve CCIEVIs so that the description of the linkages between climate change and human health can become more and more comprehensive.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Climate change ; Public health ; Indicators ; Climate data ; Policy making
Publicat a:	BMC public health, Vol. 22 (April 2022) , art. 663, ISSN 1471-2458

DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-13055-6
PMID: 35387618

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