231420 Developing and assessing climate-health indicators for rural Alaska Native populations across different regional settings

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 : 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM

Michael Brubaker, MS , Department of Community Environment & Safety/ Center for Climate and Health, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, AK
Jacob Bell, MS , Department of Community Environment & Safety/ Center for Climate and Health, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, AK
James Berner, MD , Community Health Programs, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, AK
John Warren, PE , Division of Environmental Health & Engineering, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, AK
     
Rural Alaska Natives have a unique dependence on their local environment through their ongoing subsistence lifestyles and culture. The Arctic and sub-Arctic is currently experiencing rapid and large-magnitude climate change impacts. This presentation will detail the response of the Alaska Native (AN) health system, which has worked to develop appropriate indicators of health vulnerability and resilience for AN populations in a variety of different rural settings across the state, and to assess and monitor these indicators for the protection and promotion of AN health under climate change.

Learning Areas:
Environmental health sciences
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
1. Compare methods of climate change health assessment across two distinct environmental regions and indigenous populations of Alaska. 2. List types of climate-health indicators currently utilized within the Alaska Native health system.

Keywords: Climate Change, Alaska Natives

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am qualified to present because I am the co-director of the Center for Climate and Health (at the Statewide Tribal Health Organization), which developed and directed the research in this presentation. I led field-research, data analysis, and reporting for almost all activities described in this presentation.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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