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Climate Change and Human Health Literature Portal Using precision public health to manage climate change: Opportunities, challenges, and health justice

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Johnson WG
2020
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 48 (4): 681-693

Amid public health concerns over climate change, "precision public health" (PPH) is emerging in next generation approaches to practice. These novel methods promise to augment public health operations by using ever larger and more robust health datasets combined with new tools for collecting and analyzing data. Precision strategies to protecting the public health could more effectively or efficiently address the systemic threats of climate change, but may also propagate or exacerbate health disparities for the populations most vulnerable in a changing climate. How PPH interventions collect and aggregate data, decide what to measure, and analyze data pose potential issues around privacy, neglecting social determinants of health, and introducing algorithmic bias into climate responses. Adopting a health justice framework, guided by broader social and climate justice tenets, can reveal principles and policy actions which may guide more responsible implementation of PPH in climate responses.

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    General Exposure
    Global or Unspecified Location
    General Health Impact
    Review Article
    Adaptation, Climate Justice/Climate Equity, Policy, Vulnerable Population
    • Adaptation, Climate Justice/Climate Equity, Policy, Vulnerable Population: Intervention
    • Adaptation, Climate Justice/Climate Equity, Policy, Vulnerable Population: General Vulnerable Populations
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