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How the changing climate of Wisconsin is affecting health

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 : 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM

Jeffrey Phillips , Division of Public Health, Wisconsin Dept. of Health Services, Madison, WI
           
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
The Wisconsin Department of Health will present their experience with gathering and interpreting climate change information and developing and implementing processes to identify health impacts of concern for Wisconsinites. The speaker will discuss dealing with uncertainty in climate change projections for Wisconsin, the intricacies of identifying causal pathways that relate climate or weather conditions to health outcomes, and approaches to ranking health issues of concern for future action.

Learning Areas:

Environmental health sciences

Learning Objectives:
Discuss the health impacts of climate change in Wisconsin. Compare strategies for implementing the BRACE framework.

Keyword(s): Climate and Health, Environmental Health

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have 28 years of experience in local and state public health agencies. My professional experiences over a long and varied career in Environmental/Public Health place me in a unique position to address climate change from a number of perspectives, to move it into the forefront of public health, and to utilize our abilities to adapt through health interventions and long-term climate planning to prevent illness and disease.
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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