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Development of key indicators to quantify the health impacts of climate change on Canadians
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OBJECTIVES: This study aimed at developing a list of key human health indicators for quantifying the health impacts of climate change in Canada. METHODS: A literature review was conducted in OVID Medline to identify health morbidity and mortality indicators currently used to quantify climate change impacts. Public health frameworks and other studies of climate change indicators were reviewed to identify criteria with which to evaluate the list of proposed key indicators and a rating scale was developed. Total scores for each indicator were calculated based on the rating scale. RESULTS: A total of 77 health indicators were identified from the literature. After evaluation using the chosen criteria, 8 indicators were identified as the best for use. They include excess daily all-cause mortality due to heat, premature deaths due to air pollution (ozone and particulate matter 2.5), preventable deaths from climate change, disability-adjusted life years lost from climate change, daily all-cause mortality, daily non-accidental mortality, West Nile Disease incidence, and Lyme borreliosis incidence. CONCLUSIONS: There is need for further data and research related to health effect quantification in the area of climate change.
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- Authors
- Cheng, J. J., & Berry, P.
- Affiliations
- Health Canada (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Cheng, June J.
- Venue
- International Journal of Public Health
- Published
- 2013-07-30
- Volume
- 58
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 765-775
- ISSN
- 1661-8556 (ISSN-L)
- 1661-8564
- PMC
- PMC3907783
- OpenAlex
- W2010872770
- Cited by
- 25
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 3
- FWCI
- 1.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- International Journal of Public Health (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Health Canada
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate Change and Environmental Impact
- Keywords
- health impacts of climate change, health indicators, heat-related mortality, air pollution mortality, ozone, particulate matter, disability-adjusted life years, preventable deaths, West Nile fever, Lyme disease, non-accidental mortality, Canada
- MeSH terms
- Air Pollution, Canada, Communicable Diseases, Environmental Exposure, Food Supply, Health Status Indicators, Hot Temperature, Humans, Mortality, Water Supply, Reproducibility of Results, Climate Change
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