Overview
- Addresses direct and indirect adverse impacts on respiratory health as a result of climate change
- Fully updated edition with seven new chapters on topics such as climate adaptation and the role of the physician as climate advocate
- Contributors are domestic and international experts on respiratory health and climate change
Part of the book series: Respiratory Medicine (RM)
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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Global warming
- Climate change
- Allergic rhinitis
- Asthma
- COPD
- Climate driven air pollution
- Heat stress
- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- Infectious respiratory disease
- Lung cancer
- Malnutrition
- Ozone levels
- Pneumonia
- Pollen releases
- Repiratory disease
- Respiratory health
- Seasonal flu patterns
- Tuberculosis
- Upper respiratory infections
- public health
About this book
This book is a guide to the research, findings, and discussions of US and international experts on climate change and respiratory health. Since the publication of the first edition, climate change has been increasingly acknowledged as being directly related to the prevalence and incidence of respiratory morbidity. Evidence is increasing that climate change does drive respiratory disease onset and exacerbation as a result of increased ambient and indoor air pollution, desertification, heat stress, wildfires, and the geographic and temporal spread of pollens, molds and infectious agents.
This second edition is fully updated to include the latest research by international experts on topics such as heat waves causing critical care-related diseases, climate-driven air pollution increases, and high-level ozone and ozone exposure linked to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, lung cancer, and acute lower respiratory infection. Seven new chapters have also been added on extremeweather and agricultural safety in California; desert dust effects on lung health; climate policy and the EPA; California's integrated approach to air quality and climate change; integrating climate change, the environment, and sustainability themes into professional health science courses; and the role of the physician as climate advocate. This is an ideal guide for all pulmonologists and health professionals treating patients with pulmonary disease.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kent E. Pinkerton, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Professor In-Residence, Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis. He is also Director of the Center for Health and the Environment at the John Muir Institute of the Environment. Dr. Pinkerton’s research is on health effects of environmental air pollutants on lung structure and function, the interaction of gases and airborne particles within specific sites and cell populations of the lungs in acute and chronic lung injury, and the effects of environmental tobacco smoke on lung growth and development. He is also a member of the Assembly for Environmental and Occupational Health of the American Thoracic Society.
William N. Rom, MD, MPH, is the Sol and Judith Bergstein Professor of Medicine and Environmental Medicine, Emeritus. He is currently Research Scientist at NYU School of Global Public Health. He teaches Climate Change and Global Public Health and Environmental Health in a Global World. He is the former Director of the NYU Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine and Bellevue Chest Service (1989-2014). The Division has 75 full-time faculty and over 25 fellows. His research is on early detection of lung cancer, environmental lung disease, TB/AIDS, and air pollution. He and his faculty have been awarded over $142M in NIH and CDC grants over the years. He is editor of 4 editions of Environmental and Occupational Medicine and 2 editions of Tuberculosis. He has published over 350 peer reviewed articles. He was Founder and former Chair of the American Thoracic Society's Environmental Health Policy Committee that advocates science-based air pollution standards. He has been a Fellow in the Department of Interior on National Parks and was a Senior Investigator at the NHLBI, NIH for 6 years deciphering the mechanisms of asbestosis. He was a Legislative Fellow forSenator Hillary Rodham Clinton and wrote the Family Asthma Bill, the Caribbean Wilderness Act, World Trade Center health-related dust programs, and the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Bill. He was the Founder and Director of the Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Utah.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Change and Global Public Health
Editors: Kent E. Pinkerton, William N. Rom
Series Title: Respiratory Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54746-2
Publisher: Humana Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54745-5Published: 24 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54748-6Published: 24 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54746-2Published: 23 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2197-7372
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7380
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XV, 605
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 103 illustrations in colour
Topics: Pneumology/Respiratory System, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Primary Care Medicine, Public Health