Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides a theoretical framework and related technical skills for investigating climate change and its public health consequences and responses with a focus on urban settings, and in particular Hong Kong, a subtropical metropolis in Asia.
Specifically, the book examines the impact of climate change on health in terms of mortality, hospital admissions and help-seeking, as well as key response strategies of adaptation and mitigation. Many existing books tend to consider the relationship of climate change and public health as two connected issues divided into various discrete topics. Conversely, this book explicitly applies public health concepts to study the human impact of climate change, for example, by conceptualising climate change impact and its alleviation, mitigation and adaptation in a public health framework. Overall, this volume summarises what is known about climate change and health and ignites further debates in the area, especially for urban subtropical communities from within a wider global perspective.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental health, public health, climate change, urban studies and Asian studies.
Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Principles of Health, Public Health and Climate Change 3. Climate Change Impact on Disease and Health 4.Climate Change and Disasters 5. Research Methodology I: Climate and Health Outcome Modelling 6. Research Methodology II: Climate and Human Behavioural Model 7. The Case of Hong Kong 8. Health Impact of Extreme Temperature and Heat Island Effect on Mortality 9. Temperature Impact on General and Communicable Disease-Related Morbidities 10. Temperature and Non-Communicable Disease Hospitalisation 11. Climate Change Behavioural Adaptation I: Help-Seeking and Information-Seeking Behaviours under Extreme Climate Events 12. Climate Change Behavioural Adaptation II: Bottom-Up Approach of Community Risk Perception and Self-Help Behaviours under Extreme Climate Events 13. Climate Change Mitigation, Policies, Research Gaps, and Next Steps 14. Conclusion
