Climate Change and Public Health

• Utgivningsdatum: 2024-06-19
• Mått: 165 x 226 x 43 mm
• Vikt: 681 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 480
• Upplaga: 2
• Förlag: OUP USA
• ISBN: 9780197683293

• Miljövetenskap och miljöpolitik
• Sociologi
• Folkhälsa och hälsopedagogik

Barry S. Levy, M.D., M.P.H., is an environmental and occupational health specialist with more than forty years of experience in this field. He has edited and written twenty-one previous books. He is an Adjunct Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine and a past president of the American Public Health Association.Jonathan A. Patz, M.D., M.P.H., has taught and conducted research on the health effects of climate change for thirty years and has authored major national and international reports on this subject. He is a Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair of Health and the Environment at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

If you want to know why you should care about climate change, read this book. The authors aren't politicians or policy makers or pundits. They're public health professionals who walk through the science facts and data analysis. And in the end, after reading each chapter, you will be left with the undeniable fact that the threat of climate is not only real, it's really about you and your family's health and well-being. But this book doesn't stop there. It shows us that we can reduce the pollution that is destabilizing our planet by shifting to technologies, practices and products that will save millions and millions of lives every year. So what are you waiting for? Read the book and then go out and act on climate

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