2017/10/26 by Natasha DeJarnett, Katherine Robb, Ivana Castellanos +3
Environmental Science · Health Professions · #Climate Change and Health Impacts #Public Health Policies and Education #Air Quality and Health Impacts
paper · doi:10.2105/ajph.2017.304168
Climate change is today’s greatest public health threat.1 As the nation’s leading voice in public health, the American Public Health Association (APHA) has demonstrated an enduring commitment to climate change as a health issue. As far back as the mid-1920s, AJPH reported on the health impacts of climate change.2–4 Shaping the development of future organizational efforts, APHA members created the organization’s first policy statement on climate change in 1995 (updated in 2007 and 2015). APHA continued to bring attention to climate change and public health, making it the theme of National Public Health Week 2008. Since then, evidence of climate change’s causes and effects has mounted, but politicization of the issue and low prioritization by the public has made progress toward mitigation and adaptation slow. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print October 26, 2017: e1–e2. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2017.304168)