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| Effects of Climate Change on Human Health: Current and Future Impacts | |
| 项目编号 | R832751 |
| Adel Hanna | |
| 项目主持机构 | Iowa State University |
| 开始日期 | 2006 |
| 结束日期 | 2008-12-01 |
| 英文摘要 | The overall goal of the proposed research project is to define more precisely the interrelationships among (a) changes in climate and meteorological conditions, (b) air pollution, and (c) heat- and cold-related morbidity severe enough to warrant clinical contact. A secondary goal is to evaluate heat-related morbidity in a vulnerable population: children and adults under economic disadvantage. We propose a novel approach that views climate trends and the associated weather in terms of eight identified air-mass/weather types. We hypothesize that such air masses and the corresponding air quality conditions will have different health impacts on humans, which can be quantified based on statistical analyses of the correlates among the meteorological, climate, air quality, and health data.Our work will consist of the following steps: (1) Characterize weather patterns and circulation types over the state of North Carolina; (2) examine temporal and regional variability in meteorological and climatological patterns of the state of North Carolina to identify abnormalities related to climate fluctuation, including weather patterns related to events such as El Niño, and to describe their relationship to air pollution; (3) identify meteorological and climatological correlates of variability in air pollution across the state’s highly variable geographic regions over a period of ten years to define the year-to-year reproducibility of the meteorological – air pollution relationship, and to assess changing trends in the relationship over time; (4) establish two mordibity databases, one of hospitalizations for cardiovascular disease, asthma, heat syncope and influenza among all North Carolina residents, and a second database of emergency room visits, physician visits, and costs for the same disease outcomes for Medicaid recipients; (5) address the potential mismatch in the scale of climate, air quality and health data bases to insure the validity of the statistical correlations among various parameters; (6) correlate the occurrence of health data with changes in meteorological and air quality parameters to define the relative risk and attributable fraction of asthma and cardiovascular morbidity in relation to air pollution; (7) apply these predictive statistical models to three geographic regions within the state (mountains, Piedmont and coastal plain) to determine whether the relationship between climate changes and heat- and cold-related morbidity varies in different geographic frameworks (e.g., urban vs. rural agricultural vs. rural non-agricultural areas); (8) examine the use of the global climate and air quality modeling systems to address future regional health impacts of climate variations; and (9) provide an assessment of uncertainty in quantifying the potential impact of climate variability on health using the proposed data and modeling analyses.:We anticipate that the characteristics of the climate – air pollution relationship across North Carolina over time will be generalizable throughout the US, and that our proposed study will yield important insights regarding the impact of climate change and air pollution on heat- and cold-related morbidity, thus advancing our knowledge of the health effects of climate change and their predictability. Findings on applying environmental and climate data to decrease heat- and cold-related morbidity could result in a substantial public health impact, not just in North Carolina but throughout the United States |
| 英文关键词 | Global Climate;Air Quality ;Human Health;Epidemiology;Modeling;Climate Models;Southeast, |
| 学科分类 | 09 - 环境科学;08 - 地球科学 |
| 资助机构 | US-EPA |
| 项目经费 | 599103 |
| 国家 | US |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 文献类型 | 项目 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/72886 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Adel Hanna.Effects of Climate Change on Human Health: Current and Future Impacts.2006. |
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