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The health impacts of climate change

1 Sep 2018

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Colin Tukuitonga

Pacific Health Dialog

Climate change is having significant and damaging effects on communities and economies of the Pacific nations and projected to get worse over the coming decades. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates an additional 250,000 deaths annually between 2030 and 2050 due to malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea...



Journal article

Interview with Dr Colin Tukuitonga: from crisis to action in Pacific communities

6 Dec 2018

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Colin Tukuitonga

Public Health Research & Practice

Dr Colin Tukuitonga speaks about how climate change is affecting the health of people living in Pacifc Island countries and the relevance of Australia’s climate change policy responses to these neighbouring countries.



Policy report

From Townsville to Tuvalu: health and climate change in Australia and the Asia Pacific region

31 Jul 2019

326

Mason Littlejohn, Misha Coleman, Annette Bos, Jane Fisher

Global Health Alliance (Australia)

This policy paper highlights evidence and case studies to show how climate and environmental change will affect human health in the Asia Pacific region. It also provides proposals for how Australian governments - federal, state and local - might respond to this challenge.



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A conceptual framework for climate change, health and wellbeing in NSW, Australia

7 Dec 2018

50

Sinead Boylan, Kathleen Beyer, David Schlosberg, Anastasia Mortimer, Neil Hime, Benjamin Scalley, Robyn Alders, Carlos Corvalan, Anthony Capon

Public Health Research & Practice

The proposed framework presented in this paper was developed in consultation with researchers and policy makers. The framework is guiding current research examining vulnerabilities to climate change and the effects of a range of exposures on health and wellbeing.