Climate Change and Health: Extreme Weather

Learn more about the Advocate Health - Midwest Get Climate Smart - Actions for Health Professionals CE series.

March 1, 2023 session

Research

Bell, J. E., Brown, C. L., Conlon, K., Herring, S., Kunkel, K. E., Lawrimore, J., Luber, G., Schreck, C., Smith, A., & Uejio, C. (2018). Changes in extreme events and the potential impacts on human health. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995), 68(4), 265–287.

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. (2022, Apr 25). Climate Effects on Health. https://www.cdc.gov/climateandhealth/effects/default.htm ​

The Commonwealth Fund. (2022). The impact of climate change on our health and health systems. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/explainer/2022/may/impact-climate.

Ebi, K.L., Berry, P., Campbell-Lendrum, D., Cissé, G., et al. (2019). Health system adaptation to climate variability and change. Global Commission on Adaptation. 

Ebi, K. L., & Hess, J. J. (2020). Health Risks Due To Climate Change: Inequity In Causes And Consequences. Health affairs (Project Hope), 39(12), 2056–2062.​

Epstein P. R. (2005). Climate change and human health. The New England journal of medicine, 353(14), 1433–1436.

Ma, T., Moore, J., & Cleary, A. (2022). Climate change impacts on the mental health and wellbeing of young people: A scoping review of risk and protective factors. Social science & medicine (1982), 301, 114888.

Malik, S., Lee, D. C., Doran, K. M., Grudzen, C. R., Worthing, J., Portelli, I., Goldfrank, L. R., & Smith, S. W. (2018). Vulnerability of Older Adults in Disasters: Emergency Department Utilization by Geriatric Patients After Hurricane Sandy. Disaster medicine and public health preparedness, 12(2), 184–193.

McMichael, A. J., Woodruff, R. E., & Hales, S. (2006). Climate change and human health: present and future risks. Lancet (London, England), 367(9513), 859–869.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Policy and Global Affairs; Office of Special Projects; Committee on Building Adaptable and Resilient Supply Chains After Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. (2020). Strengthening Post-Hurricane Supply Chain Resilience: Observations from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. National Academies Press (US).

Sharpe, J. D., & Clennon, J. A. (2020). Pharmacy Functionality During the Hurricane Florence Disaster. Disaster medicine and public health preparedness, 14(1), 93–102.

Images, Infographics

Action Against Hunger. (n.d.). World Water Day Infographics. https://www.behance.net/gallery/20611539/Water-Sanitation-and-Hygiene-Infographics

American Public Health Association. (2022). How climate change affects your health. https://www.apha.org/news-and-media/multimedia/infographics/how-climate-change-affects-your-health

California Department of Public Health. (2022, Dec 21). Climate Change and Health Impacts. https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OHE/pages/CCHEP.aspx

Climate Central. (2019, February 20). Your Climate If a Green New Deal Went Global. https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/your-climate-global-green-new-deal-2019

The Climate Explorer. (2022). Cook County, IL. https://crt-climate-explorer.nemac.org/climate_maps/?city=Chicago%2C+IL&county=Cook%2BCounty&area-id=17031&fips=17031&zoom=7&lat=41.8781136&lon=-87.6297982&id=pcpn 

Environmental Protection Agency. (2022, August 1). Figure 6. Comparison on Monthly Burned Area Due to Wildfires in the United States between 1984-2001 and 2002-2020. https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-wildfires

FDA. (2017, Oct 20). Securing the Future for Puerto Rico: Restoring the Island’s Robust Medical Product Manufacturing Center. 

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. (2022). Health impacts of extreme weather: climate change and human health. https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/programs/climatechange/health_impacts/weather_related_morbidity/index.cfm

ODI. (2017, Nov 16). Infographics: climate change, migration and displacement. https://odi.org/en/publications/multimedia/infographics-climate-change-migration-and-displacement/​

United States Environmental Protection Agency. (2022). Climate change indicators: weather and climate. https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/weather-climate

Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts. (2023). Days per decade with more than 2 inches of precipitation in a day. https://wicci.wisc.edu/wisconsin-climate-trends-and-projections/