The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future

M Romanello, A McGushin, C Di Napoli, P Drummond… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Executive summary The Lancet Countdown is an international collaboration that
independently monitors the health consequences of a changing climate. Publishing …

The 2022 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: leveraging climate actions for healthy ageing

W Cai, C Zhang, S Zhang, Y Bai… - The Lancet Public …, 2022 - thelancet.com
The 2022 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: leveraging
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Rising cause-specific mortality risk and burden of compound heatwaves amid climate change

J Liu, J Qi, P Yin, W Liu, C He, Y Gao, L Zhou… - Nature Climate …, 2024 - nature.com
Global warming shifts daytime-only heatwaves to nighttime-only and day–night compound
heatwaves. However, evidence on the cause-specific burdens of these heatwaves in a …

Synergistic effect of CO2 and PM2. 5 emissions from coal consumption and the impacts on health effects

W Jia, L Li, Y Lei, S Wu - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
China put forward that it would strive to achieve the carbon peaking in 2030 and carbon
neutrality goals in 2060, which needed realizing the synergistic effect of pollution reduction …

The 2021 report of the MJALancet Countdown on health and climate change: Australia increasingly out on a limb

PJ Beggs, Y Zhang, A McGushin… - Medical Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Summary The MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change in Australia was
established in 2017, and produced its first national assessment in 2018, its first annual …

The burden of heatwave-related preterm births and associated human capital losses in China

Y Zhang, S Hajat, L Zhao, H Chen, L Cheng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Frequent heatwaves under global warming can increase the risk of preterm birth (PTB),
which in turn will affect physical health and human potential over the life course. However …

Healthy cities initiative in China: Progress, challenges, and the way forward

Y Bai, Y Zhang, O Zotova, H Pineo, J Siri… - The Lancet Regional …, 2022 - thelancet.com
China implemented the first phase of its National Healthy Cities pilot program from 2016-20.
Along with related urban health governmental initiatives, the program has helped put health …

Avoidable heat-related mortality in China during the 21st century

G Zhang, Z Sun, L Han, V Iyakaremye, Z Xu… - npj Climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
Using non-accidental mortality records from 195 sites and 11 model simulations from the
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6, we assessed future avoidable heat-related …

[PDF][PDF] Spatiotemporal variation of mortality burden attributable to heatwaves in China, 1979–2020

H Chen, L Zhao, W Dong, L Cheng, W Cai, J Yang… - Sci Bull, 2022 - carrzee.org
Hot weather lasting for several days, often referred to as a heatwave, is a pervasive natural
hazard that can impact heavily on the social-economy and health systems and is projected …

Climate change drives the transmission and spread of vector-borne diseases: an ecological perspective

J Ma, Y Guo, J Gao, H Tang, K Xu, Q Liu, L Xu - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Vector-borne diseases (VBDs) are a major threat to human health. Climate
change has a significant impact on VBDs. To clarify the complex effects of climate change on …