The Health Practitioner's Guide to Climate Change

Diagnosis and Cure
Herausgeber: Griffiths, Jenny; Adshead, Fiona; Rao, Mala

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781844077298
• ISBN-10: 1844077292
• Artikelnr.: 26459191

Autorenporträt

Jenny Griffiths is a former health service manager and chief executive who now works independently. Mala Rao is Director of the first Indian Institute of Public Health, based in Hyderabad. Fiona Adshead was previously the deputy chief medical officer in the Department of Health for England and the chief government adviser on Health Inequalities. Allison Thorpe is a Senior Research Associate at Brunel University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Information
1. Greenhouse Gas Emissions - The Hard Facts
2. Climate Change is Deadly - The Health Impacts of Climate Change
3. Health and the Natural Environment
4. The Health Benefits of Action on Climate Change
Part II: Action
5. Leadership: How to Influence National and International Policy
6. How to Help to Plan a Healthy, Sustainable, Low-carbon Community
7. How You Can Make a Real Difference
8. How to Help People to Change Behaviour
9. How to Take Action in the Community
10. How to Help Organisations to Take Action
11. How Health Services Can Act
12. How to Prepare for the Health Effects of Climate Change
Resources section