{"id":1457,"date":"2019-11-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/dighr\/library\/the-lancet-countdown-on-health-and-climate-change-2019-policy-brief-on-humanitarian-impacts\/"},"modified":"2020-11-15T11:50:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T16:50:13","slug":"the-lancet-countdown-on-health-and-climate-change-2019-policy-brief-on-humanitarian-impacts","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/dighr\/resource\/the-lancet-countdown-on-health-and-climate-change-2019-policy-brief-on-humanitarian-impacts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change 2019: Policy brief on humanitarian impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2019 edition of <i>The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change<\/i> was launched on November 13, in conjunction with a series of policy briefs, including the <i>Policy Brief on Humanitarian Impacts<\/i>. Two Dahdaleh Institute researchers, Carol Devine and Linn Biorklund Belliveau, contributed. Devine acted as co-author and Biorklund Belliveau wrote \"Case Study: Geopolitical Aspects of Humanitarian Crises.\"<\/p>\n<p><i>The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change<\/i> is an international research collaboration dedicated to tracking the world's response to climate change and how it effects global health. Reporting annually since 2015, the project measures a set of indicators which speak to the progress made and the progress we have yet to make.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2>Introduction<\/h2>\n<p>Human-induced climate change and environmental degradation is linked to profound and increasing health impacts. M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res\/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) medical humanitarian teams around the world witness and respond to population and individual level health impacts that are in many cases likely exacerbated by climate change. This includes, for example, increased transmission of infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue and cholera; water scarcity and food insecurity, leading to malnutrition; impacts of heat exposure including acute dehydration leading to acute kidney failure or heat stroke, or exacerbation of cardiovascular conditions. Mental health can also be impacted, especially due to extreme weather events and population displacement, including in urban centres<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":""},"categories":[21,38],"tags":[],"research-theme":[18,17],"stage":[44],"relationship":[63],"class_list":["post-1457","resource","type-resource","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-lib","category-research","research-theme-humanitarianism","research-theme-planetary-health","stage-active","relationship-internal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change 2019: Policy brief on humanitarian impacts - Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/dighr\/resource\/the-lancet-countdown-on-health-and-climate-change-2019-policy-brief-on-humanitarian-impacts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change 2019: Policy brief on humanitarian impacts - Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 2019 edition of The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change was launched on November 13, in conjunction with a series of policy briefs, including the Policy Brief on Humanitarian Impacts. 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