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Climate Health-Being: The Physical, Mental, and Financial Burden of Extreme Weather Events?

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Climate Change".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 5549

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Dr. Anushree Priyadarshini

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Environmental Sustainability & Health Institute, Technological University Dublin, Dublin 7, Ireland
Interests: healthcare management and costing; food innovation management; climate health; environment sustainability
Dr. Paul Dylan Hynds

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Environmental Sustainability & Health Institute, Technological University Dublin, D07 H6K8 Dublin, Ireland
Interests: environmental epidemiology; statistical modelling; environmental microbiology; waterborne disease
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Dr. Jean O’Dwyer

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Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, T12 K8AF Cork, Ireland
Interests: environment and health; groundwater contamination; climate change and health; waterborne diseasse
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are assembling a Special Issue on the physical, mental, and financial burden of climate change in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The venue is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal that publishes articles and communications in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. For detailed information about the journal, we refer you to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph  Climate change is a complex phenomenon, resulting in both direct and indirect impacts on society and public health. The most apparent (direct) health risks derive from extreme events, particularly heatwaves, storms, cyclones, fires, droughts, and floods. In the medium to longer-term, however, the wider spectrum of health consequences (indirect) as a result of climate change will encompass shifting patterns of infectious disease, changes in regional food yields, health consequences of diminished water flows and quality, and deterioration of ambient air quality, particularly in urban areas. Compounding the physical impacts of climate change are myriad psychosocial impacts, which have detrimental effects on human wellbeing. In spite of general awareness that climate change can affect public health and wellbeing, there is an urgent need to increase our understanding of the diverse and wide-ranging impacts—identifying vulnerabilities that currently exist and may exist in the future. This proposed Special Issue aims to highlight the challenges and solutions to climate change influences on health and wellbeing in both high- and low-resource settings.  The Special Issue is open to recent research papers, reviews, short communications, as well as perspectives on any subject area related to the impact of climate change on health and wellbeing. The listed key words suggest just a few of the many possibilities.

Dr. Anushree Priyadarshini
Dr. Paul Hynds
Dr. Jean O’Dwyer
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • climate change
  • environment
  • extreme weather events
  • human health
  • wellbeing
  • mental health
  • financial burden
  • infection
  • epidemiology
  • waterborne
  • foodborne
  • airborne

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The Effects of the Dynamic Thermophysical Properties of Clothing and the Walking Speed Input Parameter on the Heat Strain of a Human Body Predicted by the PHS Model
by Qianqian Huang and Jun Li
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(18), 6475; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186475 - 05 Sep 2020
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The prediction accuracy of the Predicted Heat Strain (PHS) model is affected by the correction approaches of static thermophysical properties of clothing considering the pumping effects of wind and body movement. In this study, a comparison of different correction algorithms for three types [...] Read more.
The prediction accuracy of the Predicted Heat Strain (PHS) model is affected by the correction approaches of static thermophysical properties of clothing considering the pumping effects of wind and body movement. In this study, a comparison of different correction algorithms for three types of clothing and their influence on the heat strain predicted by the PHS model was carried out with experimental data obtained from the literature. Results show that the dynamic insulation values calculated by ISO 9920 corrections are larger than those obtained by ISO 7933 when the static insulation values are higher than 0.4 clo, but when the static values are lower than 0.4 clo, it varies contrarily. The dynamic evaporative resistance values calculated with ISO 9920 equations are larger than those with ISO 7933. The prediction accuracy of the PHS model with ISO 9920 corrections and the addition of the walking speed input parameter can be improved for normal clothing (NC) in a hot environment and high clothing insulation. For specialized, insulating, cold weather clothing (SC), ISO 7933 corrections with an added walking speed input parameter to the PHS model have a good prediction precision. Full article
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Mental Health and Weather Extremes in a Southeastern U.S. City: Exploring Group Differences by Race
by Lisa Reyes Mason, Bonita B. Sharma, Jayme E. Walters and Christine C. Ekenga
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(10), 3411; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17103411 - 14 May 2020
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The connection between mental health and weather extremes is a public health concern, but less studied to date than physical health. This exploratory study examines the mental health impacts of two kinds of weather extremes increasingly linked to climate change—summer heat waves and [...] Read more.
The connection between mental health and weather extremes is a public health concern, but less studied to date than physical health. This exploratory study examines the mental health impacts of two kinds of weather extremes increasingly linked to climate change—summer heat waves and extreme winter weather—in a low- to middle-income population in the Southeastern U.S. The distribution of mental health impacts, and potential pathways to them, are examined with a focus on race. Data are from a random-sample survey of 426 participants and are analyzed with bivariate statistics and path analysis. Self-reported mental health impacts, in both seasons, were common in our study, with White participants tending to report worse impacts than participants who identified with other racial groups. Physical health had direct effects on mental health across several models, overall and by racial group. For summer heat waves, concern about climate change and social cohesion had direct and indirect effects, respectively, on mental health in White participants only. For extreme winter weather, preparedness had a direct negative effect on mental health in White, but not Black, participants. Results suggest that there may be racial differences in the influence of human and social capital factors on mental health related to weather extremes, warranting further study of this critical topic and with larger racial subgroup samples. Full article
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