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Perceptions of Climate Change and Occupational Heat Stress Risks and Adaptation Strategies of Mining Workers in Ghana
Nunfam, Victor Fannam - 2019
used to assess climate change perceptions and occupational heat stress risks and adaptation strategies of Ghanaian mining … across types of mining activity (p < 0.001). Workers experienced heat-related morbidities, but the variation in heat …-related morbidity experiences across the type of mining activity was not significant. However, the type of heat-related morbidities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012896839
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Climate change and occupational health : are there limits to our ability to adapt?
Dillender, Marcus - 2019
This study considers the relationship between temperature and occupational health. The results indicate that both high and low temperatures increase injury rates and that high temperatures have more severe adverse effects in warmer climates, which suggests that avoiding the adverse effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986800
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The impact of climate change on mortality in the United States : benefits and costs of adaptation
Deschênes, Olivier - 2022
This paper reviews and extends the recent empirical literature on the impact of climate change on mortality and adaptation in the United States. The analysis produces several new facts. First, the reductions in the impact of extreme heat on mortality risk previously documented up to 2004 have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013329615
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When weather wounds workers : the impact of temperature on workplace accidents
Drescher, Katharina; Janzen, Benedikt - 2023
We study the effects of temperature on occupational health using administrative data on Swiss occupational accidents from 1996 to 2019. Our results imply that on hot days (Tmax ≥ 30 degrees Celsius) the number of occupational accidents increases by 7.4% and on ice days (Tmax 0 degrees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014312327
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Global climate change and the resurgence of tropical disease : an economic approach
Gollin, Douglas; Zimmermann, Christian - 2010
We study the impact of global climate change on the prevalence of tropical diseases using a heterogeneous agent dynamic general equilibrium model. In our framework, households can take actions (e.g., purchasing bednets or other goods) that provide partial protection from disease. However, these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003986324
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Global Climate Change and the Resurgence of Tropical Disease : An Economic Approach
Gollin, Douglas - 2014
We study the impact of global climate change on the prevalence of tropical diseases using a heterogeneous agent dynamic general equilibrium model. In our framework, households can take actions (e.g., purchasing bednets or other goods) that provide partial protection from disease. However, these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069637
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Climate Change and Occupational Health : Are There Limits to Our Ability to Adapt?
Dillender, Marcus - 2019
This study considers the relationship between temperature and occupational health. The results indicate that both high and low temperatures increase injury rates and that high temperatures have more severe adverse effects in warmer climates, which suggests that avoiding the adverse effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871527
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Health Expenditures, Remittances, and Climate Vulnerability : Evidence from Bangladesh
Hassan, Gazi; Mahmud, Sakib - 2021
Remittances’ effect on a household’s health outcome (e.g. Infant mortality) is ambiguous, but the impact on health expenditure is positive and less equivocal in literature. This paper puts the relationship between health expenditure and remittances into a stress test to see whether it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224629
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Emerging Law Addressing Climate Change and Water
Burleson, Elizabeth - 2015
The World Economic Forum recognizes that while restrictions on energy affect water systems and vise versa, energy and water policy are rarely coordinated. The International Panel on Climate Change predicts that wet places will become wetter and dry places will become dryer. Transboundary water,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196020
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The Health Effects of Climate Change : A Survey of Recent Quantitative Research
Grasso, Margherita; Manera, Matteo; Chiabai, Aline; … - 2013
In recent years there has been a large scientific and public debate on climate change and its direct as well as indirect effects on human health. According to World Health Organization WHO, 2006), some 2.5 million people die every year from non-infectious diseases directly attributable to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014198544