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The value of health damage due to sulphur dioxide emissions from coal‐fired electricity generation in NSW and implications for pollution licences

12 Apr 2018

Ben Ewald

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

The health impacts of air pollution are increasingly recognised, with the main sources being transport, electricity generation and biomass burning. There is extensive public debate about the transition of the electricity sector away from coal-fired generation, but the health effects are not being heard in...

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Urban mind: Using smartphone technologies to investigate the impact of nature on mental well-being in real time

10 Jan 2018

Ioannis Bakolis, Ryan Hammoud, Michael Smythe, Johanna Gibbons, Neil Davidson, Stefania Tognin, Andrea Mechelli

BioScience

Existing evidence on the beneficial effects of nature on mental health comes from studies using cross-sectional designs. We developed a smartphone-based tool (Urban Mind; www.urbanmind.info ) to examine how exposure to natural features within the built environment affects mental well-being in real time. The tool...

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Influence of environmental temperature on risk of gestational diabetes

15 May 2017

Gillian L. Booth, Jin Luo, Alison L. Park, Denise S. Feig, Rahim Moineddin, Joel G. Ray

Canadian Medical Association Journal

This Canadian study seeks to discuss the link between gestational diabetes to outdoor air temperatures.

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A brief review of global climate change and the public health consequences

1 Jul 2018

Ivan Parise

Australian Journal of General Practice

This article seeks to examine briefly the association between fossil fuels and global climate change, the consequent environmental changes and the predicted public health effects.

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The nexus between climate change, mental health and wellbeing and Pacific peoples

30 Sep 2018

Jemaima Tiatia-Seath, Yvonne Underhill-Sem, Alistair Woodward

Pacific Health Dialog

Much of the health research on climate change in the Pacific is dominated by the vulnerability of ecosystems and only recently have mental health impacts of climate change been recognised by public health experts. Although the research is still limited, it is projected that disruption...

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Climate change –transitions, tipping points and typhoons

30 Sep 2018

Alistair Woodward

Pacific Health Dialog

Very few people in the Pacific region will be unmarked by climate change, particularly as half the population live within 1.5 kilometres of the ocean. Noticeable rises in sea-level, more frequent cyclones and floods, and changes to seasonal weather are attributable to climate change in...

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The health impacts of climate change

1 Sep 2018

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...

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

6 Dec 2018

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.