Applies knowledge of climate drivers, weather, climate change, and climate variability.
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- Understands feedbacks, loopings, and cascades of effects phenomena.
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Applies knowledge of climate drivers, weather, climate change, and climate variability.
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Describe the measurement and evidence base of climate drivers.
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Describe the difference between “climate” and “weather,” and between climate change and climate variability.
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Explain the general mechanism of the greenhouse effect.
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Explain the social dimensions of climate drivers, including population growth and economic growth.
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Applies knowledge of the health impacts of climate change relevant to adapting health services.
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Describe all of the major health effects of climate change, including both direct and indirect impacts, and their mechanisms. Impacts include: asthma and cardiovascular disease from air pollution from increasing levels of CO2; spread of viruses and infectious diseases; increases in respiratory allergies and asthma due to increasing allergens; water quality impacts; impacts to water and food supplies; environmental degradation (forced migration; exacerbation of socioeconomic, demographic, political, cultural or conflict-related threats to health security; heightening of existing health and economic inequities and their effects on the delivery of health care; consequences for mental health); impacts of extreme heat including heat-related illness and death, and cardiovascular failure; and injuries, death, and mental health impacts from severe weather.
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Explain how the human health impacts of climate variability/change will vary within and among different communities and regions, and give examples of how climate change may interact with other environmental changes to affect health.
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Applies knowledge of climate mitigation and adaptation, and health co-benefits of actions.
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Distinguish between climate mitigation and adaptation.
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Describe the near-term health co-benefits (e.g. improved air quality) that arise because of climate mitigation at the individual, local, and global scales and contribute to the reduction of longer-term climate impacts, and give examples of sectoral policies that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve health.
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Applies knowledge of health security, vulnerability, and resilience.
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Define health security, climate-health vulnerability, and climate resilience.
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Distinguish between (environmental) hazards, exposures, and vulnerabilities, and describe the opportunity areas in which public health can act to reduce harm.
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Identify vulnerabilities and risks of critical health and related infrastructure to climate change and extreme weather events.
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Knows how to access and interpret the relevance of local, national, and international information about climate change effects on health to specific regions.
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Be able to access the resources available to health professionals for information on local environmental conditions.
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Use this information to analyze the relationship between climate and health data, deliver and improve local health services, and support health impact assessment and political engagement.
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Applies knowledge of the ethical, professional, and legal obligations relevant to climate and health.
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Demonstrate how to supplement theories of collective ethics, transgenerational ethics, and ethical obligations to the natural world to more individual-oriented, present-oriented, and human-centered frameworks of climate and health ethics.
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Understand the professional and legal obligations of health professionals related to climate and health.
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