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Highly commended in the Public Health category, BMA Medical Awards
2010 There are enormous health benefits from tackling climate
change. This is the first book to set out what health practitioners
can do to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, to make
health services sustainable, and to design healthy, sustainable
communities. The book: - provides an introduction for health
practitioners and students to climate change and its current and
future health impacts - describes the relationship between health
and the environment - gives facts and figures on greenhouse gas
emissions - sets out the huge benefits to health of acting on
climate change - explains what health practitioners can do - at
home, at work and in their organizations, and - shows how you can
support action in communities, nationally and globally. Essential
reading for: - health professionals, local government, built
environment professionals - students across all sectors of health,
medicine and public administration - community and voluntary
sector, NGOs - the business community involved in private
healthcare. The Health Practitioner's Guide to Climate Change is
written by an authoritative group of authors from key organisations
in the field, including the Met Office, the Faculty of Public
Health, Natural England, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine, the Climate and Health Council, the NHS Sustainable
Development Unit, the Health Protection Agency, the University of
the West of England, Sustrans and the National Social Marketing
Centre. Sponsored by The National Heart Forum and the National
Social Marketing Centre. Foreword by Dr. R.K. Pachauri, Director
General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Chairman,
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Highly commended in the Public Health category, BMA Medical Awards
2010 There are enormous health benefits from tackling climate
change. This is the first book to set out what health practitioners
can do to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, to make
health services sustainable, and to design healthy, sustainable
communities. The book: - provides an introduction for health
practitioners and students to climate change and its current and
future health impacts - describes the relationship between health
and the environment - gives facts and figures on greenhouse gas
emissions - sets out the huge benefits to health of acting on
climate change - explains what health practitioners can do - at
home, at work and in their organizations, and - shows how you can
support action in communities, nationally and globally. Essential
reading for: - health professionals, local government, built
environment professionals - students across all sectors of health,
medicine and public administration - community and voluntary
sector, NGOs - the business community involved in private
healthcare. The Health Practitioner's Guide to Climate Change is
written by an authoritative group of authors from key organisations
in the field, including the Met Office, the Faculty of Public
Health, Natural England, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine, the Climate and Health Council, the NHS Sustainable
Development Unit, the Health Protection Agency, the University of
the West of England, Sustrans and the National Social Marketing
Centre. Sponsored by The National Heart Forum and the National
Social Marketing Centre. Foreword by Dr. R.K. Pachauri, Director
General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Chairman,
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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