Climate Change and Urban Health: The Case of Hong Kong as a Subtropical City

ISBN-13: 9780367729363 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 264 str.

Emily Ying Yang Chan

Opis

This book provides a theoretical framework and related technical skills for investigating climate change and its public health consequences and responses, with a focus on urban settings, and in particular Hong Kong, a subtropical metropolis in Asia. Specifically, the book examines the impact of climate change on health in terms of mortality, hos

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2.  Principles of Health, Public Health and Climate Change 3. Climate Change Impact on Disease and Health  4.Climate Change and Disasters  5.  Research Methodology I: Climate and Health Outcome Modelling  6. Research Methodology II: Climate and Human Behavioural Model  7. The Case of Hong Kong  8. Health Impact of Extreme Temperature and Heat Island Effect on Mortality  9. Temperature Impact on General and Communicable Disease-Related Morbidities  10. Temperature and Non-Communicable Disease Hospitalisation  11. Climate Change Behavioural Adaptation I: Help-Seeking and Information-Seeking Behaviours under Extreme Climate Events  12. Climate Change Behavioural Adaptation II: Bottom-Up Approach of Community Risk Perception and Self-Help Behaviours under Extreme Climate Events  13. Climate Change Mitigation, Policies, Research Gaps, and Next Steps  14. Conclusion

O autorze

Emily Ying Yang Chan serves as Professor, Head of Division of Global Health and Humanitarian Medicine and the Assistant Dean of Faculty of Medicine at Chinese University of Hong Kong. She concurrently holds academic appointments as the Visiting Professor (Public Health Medicine) of Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK, and is the Co-Chair of WHO Thematic Platform for Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management Research Network. She is author/editor of numerous titles and articles, including Public Health Humanitarian Responses to Natural Disasters (Routledge, 2017).