The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment

2016 assessment

Editors

• Allison Crimmins U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• John Balbus National Institutes of Health
• Janet L. Gamble U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Charles Beard Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Jesse E. Bell Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites - NC
• Daniel Dodgen U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Rebecca Eisen Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Neal Fann U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Michelle Hawkins National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Stephanie C. Herring National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Lesley Jantarasami U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• David M. Mills Abt Associates, Inc.
• Shubhayu Saha Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Marcus Sarofim U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Juli Trtanj National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Lewis Ziska U.S. Department of Agriculture

Distributors

• U.S. Global Change Research Program
• Subcommittee on Global Change Research

The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Climate and Health Assessment has been developed to enhance understanding and inform decisions about the growing threat of climate change to the health and well-being of residents of the United States. This scientific assessment is part of the ongoing efforts of USGCRP’s sustained National Climate Assessment (NCA) process and was called for under the President’s Climate Action Plan. USGCRP agencies identified human health impacts as a high-priority topic for scientific assessment. This assessment was developed by a team of more than 100 experts from 8 U.S. Federal agencies (including employees, contractors, and affiliates) to inform public health officials, urban and disaster response planners, decision makers, and other stakeholders within and outside of government who are interested in better understanding the risks climate change presents to human health. The USGCRP Climate and Health Assessment draws from a large body of scientific peer-reviewed research and other publicly available sources; all sources meet the standards of the Information Quality Act (IQA). The report was extensively reviewed by the public and experts, including a committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the 13 Federal agencies of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, and the Federal Committee on Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability (CENRS).

This report has 16 chapters, 60 figures (64 images), 29 findings, 4 tables and 1,525 references

https://health2016.globalchange.gov/

DOI : 10.7930/J0R49NQX