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Climate change and health: An exploration of the challenges for public health in Victoria

This document, launched at the Climate Change and Human Health Conference, aims to reflect from the current literature a brief overview of the potential health impacts of climate change and to relate this to Australia, and where possible, Victoria, providing local examples.

Adobe Acrobat icon Climate change and health: An exploration of the challenges for public health in Victoria (1,197kb, pdf)

Climate Change and Human Health Conference 2007

Climate Change and Human Health Conference 2007 banner

Climate change is a major issue facing Australia and the world. The human and social impacts of this change are only just beginning to be recognised. Human adaptation to these changes needs to be quickly advanced if particular at-risk groups are not to be significantly disadvantaged in the future.

Although much has been said about the physical changes to climate that can be expected our understanding of the human health and social impacts is still very limited.

This Conference explored the current knowledge about these human health and social impacts, provide information about state of the art practice from Australia and overseas and identify the immediate and longer term priorities for the health and human services sector in Australia.

Details on speakers, full program and abstracts can be found in the conference program.

Adobe Acrobat icon Conference program (441kb, pdf)

Presentations in order of presentation according to the conference program are available below.

Adobe Acrobat icon Implications for Risk Management, and Sustainability - A. J. McMichael (803kb, pdf)

Adobe Acrobat icon Climate change science: evidence, causes and projections - Kevin Hennessy (1,267kb, pdf)

Adobe Acrobat icon Climate Change Heat Waves and Health - Glenn McGregor (1,891kb, pdf)

Adobe Acrobat icon The Health Impacts of Heat Waves in Some Regions of NSW - Behnoosh Khalaj & Glenis Lloyd (328kb, pdf)

Adobe Acrobat icon A Heatwave Warning Service for a Warming Australia - A.Hainsworth (912kb, pdf)

Adobe Acrobat icon Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire: The Challenges of Measuring Heat- related Illness in Melbourne Victoria - Dr Simon Slota-Kan, David Hogan, Dr Marion Carey (149kb, pdf)

Adobe Acrobat icon The Potential Impacts on Human Thermal Comfort Levels - Nadine D’Argent, Jason Beringer, Nigel Tapper (444kb, pdf)

Adobe Acrobat icon A short-term increase in the incidence of cardiovascular syndromes requiring urgent medical treatment and its association with environmental factors - Robin Turner, David John Muscatello, Wei Zheng, Alan Willmore, Glenn Arendts (305kb, pdf)

Adobe Acrobat icon Acute Myocardial Infarction Admissions to hospital on ‘HOT’ days in Melbourne - Margaret Loughnan (966kb, pdf)

Adobe Acrobat icon Responding to Climate Change in Western Port: An Integrated Assessment - Michelle Justus (377kb, pdf)

Adobe Acrobat icon Climate Change as a Protective Factor: The Relationship Between Temperature and Respiratory Disease in Auckland, New Zealand - A.Gosai, J. Salinger and K. N. Dirks (330kb, pdf)

Adobe Acrobat icon Global Public Health and Climate Change - Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum (879kb, pdf)

Adobe Acrobat icon Implications of Community Relocation in Response to Climate Change - John Campbell (567kb, pdf)

Adobe Acrobat icon Resilience & Wellbeing - Partnerships for Protection & Promotion - Sally Rose (909kb, pdf)

Adobe Acrobat icon Mosquito-Borne Disease under Climate Change in Australia – what are the real risks? - Richard C. Russell (939kb, pdf)

Adobe Acrobat icon Eating into the environment - John Coveney (959kb, pdf)

Adobe Acrobat icon Adapting Urban Water Supplies for Climate Change - J Langford (905kb, pdf)

Adobe Acrobat icon Climate Change Air Quality and Health - Martin Cope, Sunhee Lee, Bill Physick, Kim Nguyen and John McGregor (1,195kb, pdf)

Adobe Acrobat icon Climate Change, Air Quality and Implications for Health - Lyn Denison (382kb, pdf)

Adobe Acrobat icon Victorian bushfires – Impacts on Air Quality & Health - Vikki Lynch and Dr Lynette Denison (410kb, pdf)

Adobe Acrobat icon Climate Change & Critical Health Infrastructure - Ben Gelnay (514kb, pdf)

Adobe Acrobat icon Health Impact Assessment of a Drought Social Recovery Strategy - Grace Blau and Mary Mahoney (119kb, pdf)

Adobe Acrobat icon Maintaining Health and Social Wellbeing in the Face of Climate Change: Insights from the Sustainable Farm Families Project - Ms S. Brumby, Prof J. Martin and Mr S. Willder (1,452kb, pdf)

Adobe Acrobat icon Wycheproof BGA Case Study - Stephen Jewell (785kb, pdf)

Related links

The following web sites contain information relating to climate change.

  • Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
    The Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing has produced a risk assessment of various potential health impacts of climate change over the coming decades in Australia and, in specified instances, neighbouring populations of New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.

  • Australian Greenhouse Office
    The Australian Greenhouse Office is major site to obtain information on the greenhouse effect.

  • Commonwealth Government
    The Commonwealth Government has a web site which collects and displays a wide range of information about the issue.

  • Victorian Government
    The Victorian Government also provides a wide range of information on the environment gateway.

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