This title is highly commended in the Public Health
category, BMA Medical Awards 2010. There are enormous
health benefits from tackling climate change. This is
the first book to set out what health practitioners can
do to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, to
make health services sustainable, and to design healthy,
sustainable communities. The book provides an
introduction for health practitioners and students to
climate change and its current and future health
impacts. It describes the relationship between health
and the environment. It gives facts and figures on
greenhouse gas emissions. It sets out the huge benefits
to health of acting on climate change. It explains what
health practitioners can do - at home, at work and in
their organizations, and - it shows how you can support
action in communities, nationally and globally. It is an
essential reading for: health professionals, local
government, built environment professionals; students
across all sectors of health, medicine and public
administration; community and voluntary sector, NGOs;
and, the business community involved in private
healthcare.''The Health Practitioner's Guide to Climate
Change'' is written by an authoritative group of authors
from key organisations in the field, including the Met
Office, the Faculty of Public Health, Natural England,
the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the
Climate and Health Council, the NHS Sustainable
Development Unit, the Health Protection Agency, the
University of the West of England, Sustrans and the
National Social Marketing Centre. It is sponsored by The
National Heart Forum and the National Social Marketing
Centre. It has foreword by Dr. R.K. Pachauri, Director
General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and
Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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