dc.contributor.author | Fleming, LE | |
dc.contributor.author | Leonardi, GS | |
dc.contributor.author | White, MP | |
dc.contributor.author | Medlock, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Alcock, I | |
dc.contributor.author | Macintyre, HL | |
dc.contributor.author | Maguire, K | |
dc.contributor.author | Nichols, G | |
dc.contributor.author | Wheeler, BW | |
dc.contributor.author | Morris, G | |
dc.contributor.author | Taylor, T | |
dc.contributor.author | Hemming, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Iacono, GL | |
dc.contributor.author | Gillingham, EL | |
dc.contributor.author | Hansford, KM | |
dc.contributor.author | Heaviside, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Bone, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Duarte-Davidson, R | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-23T08:21:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-06-27 | |
dc.description.abstract | Increasingly, the potential short and long-term impacts of climate change on human health and wellbeing are being demonstrated. However, other environmental change factors, particularly relating to the natural environment, need to be taken into account to understand the totality of these interactions and impacts. This paper provides an overview of ongoing research in the Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) on Environmental Change and Health, particularly around the positive and negative effects of the natural environment on human health and well-being and primarily within a UK context. In addition to exploring the potential increasing risks to human health from water-borne and vector-borne diseases and from exposure to aeroallergens such as pollen, this paper also demonstrates the potential opportunities and co-benefits to human physical and mental health from interacting with the natural environment. The involvement of a Health and Environment Public Engagement (HEPE) group as a public forum of "critical friends" has proven useful for prioritising and exploring some of this research; such public involvement is essential to minimise public health risks and maximise the benefits which are identified from this research into environmental change and human health. Research gaps are identified and recommendations made for future research into the risks, benefits and potential opportunities of climate and other environmental change on human and planetary health. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | The research was funded in part by the National Institute for Health Research Health Protection
Research Unit (NIHR HPRU) in Environmental Change and Health at the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine in partnership with Public Health England (PHE), and in collaboration with the University of
Exeter, University College London, and the Met Office (HPRU-2012-10016); the UK Medical Research Council
(MRC) and UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) for the MEDMI Project (MR/K019341/1, https:
//www.data-mashup.org.uk); the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Project (ES/P011489/1); and the
NIHR Knowledge Mobilisation Research Fellowship for Maguire. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 9 (7), 245 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/atmos9070245 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/33516 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | MDPI | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access
article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution
(CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | en_GB |
dc.subject | demographic change | en_GB |
dc.subject | infectious diseases | en_GB |
dc.subject | vector-borne diseases | en_GB |
dc.subject | aerosolized exposures | en_GB |
dc.subject | pollen | en_GB |
dc.subject | well-being | en_GB |
dc.subject | public health | en_GB |
dc.subject | land management | en_GB |
dc.subject | patient and public involvement (PPI) | en_GB |
dc.subject | land-use | en_GB |
dc.title | Beyond climate change and health: Integrating broader environmental change and natural environments for public health protection and promotion in the UK | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2018-07-23T08:21:40Z | |
dc.description | This is the final version of the article. Available from MDPI via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2073-4433 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Atmosphere | en_GB |