Climate Change and Global Health

Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Effects

Colin Butler, Kerryn Higgs

• Publisher: CAB International
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9781800620025
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

There is increasing understanding that climate change will have profound, mostly harmful effects on human health. In this authoritative book, international experts examine long-recognized areas of health concern for populations vulnerable to climate change, describing effects that are both direct, such as heat waves, and indirect, such as via vector-borne diseases. Set in a broad international, economic, political and environmental context, this unique book expands these issues by reviving and championing a third ('tertiary') category of longer term impacts on global health: famine, population dislocation, conflict and collapse. This edition has an expanded foundation, with new chapters discussing nuclear war, population and limits to growth, among others. This lively yet scholarly resource explores all these issues, finishing with a practicaldiscussion of avenues to reform. As Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, states in the foreword: 'Climate change interacts with many undesirable aspects of human behaviour, including inequality, racism and other manifestations of injustice. Climate change policies, as practised by most countries in the global North, not only interact with these long-standing forms of injustice, but exemplify a new form, of startling magnitude.'The book is dedicated to Tony McMichael, Will Steffen and Maurice King.This book will be invaluable for students, post-graduates, researchers and policy-makers in public health, climate change and medicine.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Dedication
• Contributors
• Foreword
• Introduction to the Second Edition
• Acronyms
• Acknowledgements
• 1 The Anthropocene: A Planet Under Pressure
• 2.i Rising Inequality Is Neither Inevitable Nor Necessary
• 2.ii Climate Change and the Scourge of Carbon Inequality
• 2.iii Inequality Is Driving Us Over a Cliff
• 3 Nuclear Weapons, Climate Disruption and Planetary Health
• 4 Climate Change, Global Health and Planetary Health
• 5 One Health: From Rinderpest to the Threat of a Four-Degree World
• 5.i A Practical, Integrated Way to Build a One Health Workforce – Using One Health Problem-based Learning Cases for In-Service Training Programmes in Africa
• 5.ii Food Systems, Food Safety and One Health
• 6 Land Use, Biodiversity Loss and Health
• 6.i The Biodiversity Hypothesis for Health Emerged from a Natural Experiment in the Finnish and Russian Karelia
• 7 Pandemics and Their Co-Factors: a Short History
• 8 Limits to Growth
• 9 Population, Neoliberalism and ‘Human Carrying Capacity’
• 10 Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: The Relevance of Family Planning
• 10.i Reproductive Health in Papua New Guinea: A Vignette
• 11 Heat Impacts, Adaptations and Inequities
• 11.i Thermoregulation: Risks and Protection
• 11.ii Heat and Kidney Disease
• 12 Occupational Heat Effects: A Global Health and Economic Threat
• 13 A Great Disaster: The Floods of 2022 in Pakistan
• 14 The Double-Whammy of Stoichiometric Imbalance: C–H–O and Minerals in Global Food Nutrition
• 15 Temperature-related Rise in the Potential Malaria Burden in the Ethiopian Highlands. A Proposal for a Taxation Model to Address Climate Justice
• 16 Arboviruses, Vectors, Poverty and Climate Change
• 17 Lyme Disease and Climate Change
• 18 Human Helminthiases and Climate Change: An Overview
• 19 Water and Sanitation
• 20 Air Pollution, Fires, Climate Change and Health
• 21 Climate Change and its ‘Tertiary’ Effects: Thinking Systemically in a World of Limits
• 22 Famine, Hunger, Food Prices and Climate Change
• 23 Climate Change, Migration and Health
• 24 Climate Change, Conflict, Complexity and Health
• 25 Collapse: The Climate Endgame
• 26 Climate Change and Global Mental Health
• 27 Nutrition, Soil Organic Carbon and Sustainability: Multiple Benefits of Agriculture Regeneration
• 28 Climate Change, Breastfeeding and Health
• 29 Disasters, Education, Public Health and Climate Change
• 30 Communication and Climate Change
• 31 Health, Climate and Challenges in Africa: 2024–2100
• 31.i Health Systems in Africa
• 31.ii Climate Change, Gender and Health in Africa
• 31.iii. Ethical Dimensions of Air Pollution and Climate Change in Africa
• 32 Climate Change and Health in South Asia
• 32.i Heatwaves and Health in South Asia, Focusing on India
• 32.ii Health Hazards in the Unorganized (Informal) Sectors of India
• 33 Climate Change and Health in China
• 34 Climate Change and Health in Indonesia
• 35 The Health Impacts of the Climate Crisis in the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau
• 36 Europe and Climate Change: Impacts, Risks and Opportunities
• 37 Climate Change and Health in the Arctic
• 38 How Can Public Health Add Value to Climate Policy?
• 39 Health Activism and the Challenge of Planetary Change, Including to the Climate
• 40 Climate Change and Global Health: Developing a Social Vaccine to Motivate Transformation
• Index
• Back Cover