Health Inequity of Climate Change and Air Quality
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality and Human Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2024 | Viewed by 48
Special Issue Editor
Interests: air pollution; climate change; environmental epidemiology; exposure and health risk assessment; extreme weather influenced health effects; birth outcomes; children’s respiratory health; perinatal health; planetary health; sustainable development
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change is one of the single largest threats in the 21st century, accompanied by an increasing frequency and intensity of climatic events (e.g., extreme temperatures, floods, and storms). These events raise considerable public concern due to their association with an excessive burden of diseases. Air pollution is another important environmental risk factor that affects human health independently or by interacting with changing climate conditions. To date, the complex association between climatic conditions and air pollution and various health outcomes and the underpinning mechanisms are far from clear. Moreover, there is growing evidence speculating that the health impacts of climate change and air pollution are not equally distributed across populations and regions. Clarifying these research questions is essential in order to obtain a systematic understanding of the impacts of climatic and air-quality hazards and the development of health promotion policies.
This Special Issue aims to present original research articles and reviews in order to provide solid new findings with regard to the health impacts and inequity of climate change and air quality. Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to, reviews and original research in: (1) climate change, air pollution, and health outcomes from biomarkers to mortality; (2) the health inequity of climate change and air pollution across populations and geographic regions; (3) new methods for exposure assessment; and (4) the evaluation of policies targeting the mitigation and adaptation of climate change and air pollution.
Dr. Shanshan (Shandy) Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- climate
- air pollution
- extreme weather
- health risks
- inequity
- exposure assessment
- adaptation
