Beyond climate change and health: Integrating broader environmental change and natural environments for public health protection and promotion in the UK

Lora E. Fleming; Giovanni Leonardi; Mathew P. White; Jolyon Medlock; Ian Alcock; Helen Macintyre; Kath Maguire; Gordon Nichols; Benedict W. Wheeler; George Morris; Tim Taylor; Deborah Hemming; Gianni Lo Iacono; Emma L. Gillingham; Kayleigh Hansford; Clare Heaviside; Angie Bone; Raquel Duarte-Davidson

doi:10.3390/atmos9070245

Beyond climate change and health: Integrating broader environmental change and natural environments for public health protection and promotion in the UK

Lora E. Fleming
, Giovanni Leonardi
, Mathew P. White
, Jolyon Medlock
, Ian Alcock^*
, Helen Macintyre
, Kath Maguire
, Gordon Nichols
, Benedict W. Wheeler
, George Morris
, Tim Taylor
, Deborah Hemming
, Gianni Lo Iacono
, Emma L. Gillingham
, Kayleigh Hansford
, Clare Heaviside
, Angie Bone
, Raquel Duarte-Davidson

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Increasingly, the potential short and long-term impacts of climate change on human health and wellbeing are being demonstrated. However, other environmental change factors, particularly relating to the natural environment, need to be taken into account to understand the totality of these interactions and impacts. This paper provides an overview of ongoing research in the Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) on Environmental Change and Health, particularly around the positive and negative effects of the natural environment on human health and well-being and primarily within a UK context. In addition to exploring the potential increasing risks to human health from water-borne and vector-borne diseases and from exposure to aeroallergens such as pollen, this paper also demonstrates the potential opportunities and co-benefits to human physical and mental health from interacting with the natural environment. The involvement of a Health and Environment Public Engagement (HEPE) group as a public forum of "critical friends" has proven useful for prioritising and exploring some of this research; such public involvement is essential to minimise public health risks and maximise the benefits which are identified from this research into environmental change and human health. Research gaps are identified and recommendations made for future research into the risks, benefits and potential opportunities of climate and other environmental change on human and planetary health.

Original language	English
Article number	245
Journal	Atmosphere
Volume	9
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos9070245
Publication status	Published - 27 Jun 2018

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Funding Information:
Funding: The research was funded in part by the National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit (NIHR HPRU) in Environmental Change and Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in partnership with Public Health England (PHE), and in collaboration with the University of Exeter, University College London, and the Met Office (HPRU-2012-10016); the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) for the MEDMI Project (MR/K019341/1, https: //www.data-mashup.org.uk); the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Project (ES/P011489/1); and the NIHR Knowledge Mobilisation Research Fellowship for Maguire.

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© 2018 by the authors.

UN SDGs

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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 13 Climate Action
SDG 15 Life on Land

Keywords

Aerosolized exposures
Demographic change
Infectious diseases
Land management
Land-use
Patient and public involvement (PPI)
Pollen
Public health
Vector-borne diseases
Well-being

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Fleming, L. E., Leonardi, G., White, M. P., Medlock, J., Alcock, I., Macintyre, H., Maguire, K., Nichols, G., Wheeler, B. W., Morris, G., Taylor, T., Hemming, D., Iacono, G. L., Gillingham, E. L., Hansford, K., Heaviside, C., Bone, A., & Duarte-Davidson, R. (2018). Beyond climate change and health: Integrating broader environmental change and natural environments for public health protection and promotion in the UK. Atmosphere, 9(7), Article 245. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos9070245

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Beyond climate change and health: Integrating broader environmental change and natural environments for public health protection and promotion in the UK

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