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Climate change adaptation: Where does global health fit in the agenda?

Overview of attention for article published in Globalization and Health, May 2012
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Title
Climate change adaptation: Where does global health fit in the agenda?
Published in
Globalization and Health, May 2012
DOI 10.1186/1744-8603-8-10
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Authors

Kathryn J Bowen, Sharon Friel

Abstract

Human-induced climate change will affect the lives of most populations in the next decade and beyond. It will have greatest, and generally earliest, impact on the poorest and most disadvantaged populations on the planet. Changes in climatic conditions and increases in weather variability affect human wellbeing, safety, health and survival in many ways. Some impacts are direct-acting and immediate, such as impaired food yields and storm surges. Other health effects are less immediate and typically occur via more complex causal pathways that involve a range of underlying social conditions and sectors such as water and sanitation, agriculture and urban planning. Climate change adaptation is receiving much attention given the inevitability of climate change and its effects, particularly in developing contexts, where the effects of climate change will be experienced most strongly and the response mechanisms are weakest. Financial support towards adaptation activities from various actors including the World Bank, the European Union and the United Nations is increasing substantially. With this new global impetus and funding for adaptation action come challenges such as the importance of developing adaptation activities on a sound understanding of baseline community needs and vulnerabilities, and how these may alter with changes in climate. The global health community is paying heed to the strengthening focus on adaptation, albeit in a slow and unstructured manner. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of adaptation and its relevance to global health, and highlight the opportunities to improve health and reduce health inequities via the new and additional funding that is available for climate change adaptation activities.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 1%
India 1 <1%
Nigeria 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 178 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 35 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 29 16%
Researcher 23 13%
Student > Bachelor 15 8%
Student > Postgraduate 10 5%
Other 41 22%
Unknown 30 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 30 16%
Environmental Science 25 14%
Medicine and Dentistry 24 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 5%
Other 42 23%
Unknown 41 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 August 2018.
All research outputs
#2,526,068
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Globalization and Health
#416
of 1,226 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#15,653
of 178,704 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Globalization and Health
#7
of 15 outputs
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