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Title: Costing Climate Impacts and Adaptation: A Canadian Study on Human Health
Description: This study is an attempt to generate a "bottom-up" estimate of the economic impacts of climate change in the human health context. The analysis first considers physical impacts, which are defined as the climate induced changes in a number of health endpoints (heat-related mortality; ozone-related morbidity and mortality). Based on these physical impacts, the analysis derives estimates of economic impact. Additionally, this study aims to identify indicative cost-effective adaptation measures that may reduce future potential health impacts. This study presents climate change impact estimates for three 30-year periods centering on 2025, 2055, and 2085. The four cities included in the analysis are Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, and Vancouver.
Identifier (PID): yul:827223

Title: A Human Health Perspective On Climate Change
Description: One purpose of this document is to identify research gaps to increase the understanding of climate change and health. Expanding our understanding of the often indirect, long-term, and complex consequences of climate change for human health is a high priority and challenging research task.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120664

Title: NIOSH criteria for a recommended standard: occupational exposure to heat and hot environments
Description: Criteria documents contain a critical review of the scientific and technical information about the prevalence of hazards, the existence of safety and health risks, and the adequacy of control methods. By means of criteria documents, NIOSH communicates these recommended standards to regulatory agencies, including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), health professionals in academic institutions, industry, organized labor, public interest groups, and others in the occupational safety and health community. Heat stress was last addressed in 1986.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120590

Title: The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment
Description: This is the final report , developed by over 100 experts representing eight Federal agencies, led by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). "It was called for under the President’s Climate Action Plan and is a major contribution to the sustained National Climate Assessment process. The report was informed by input gathered in listening sessions and scientific and technical information contributed through open solicitations. It underwent rigorous reviews by the public and by scientific experts inside and outside of the government, including a special committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering,and Medicine." Includes a comprehensive overview of many aspects of health impacts, including pollution and air quality. Under the report section on temperature extremes, outside workers are identified as exceptionally vulnerable to heat extremes. “ Certain occupational groups that spend a great deal of time exposed to extreme temperatures such as agricultural workers, construction workers, and electricity and pipeline utility workers are at increased risk for heat-and cold-related illness, especially where jobs involve heavy exertion... Lack of heat illness prevention programs that include provisions for acclimatization was found to be a factor strongly associated with death.” Includes references.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120526

Title: Costs to Canada’s Health Care System of Climate Change Impacts on Health ( Annex A )
Description: The objective of this work is to provide additional information on the public sector health care costs of morbidity estimates in "Costing Climate Impacts and Adaptation: A Canadian Study on Human Health", so as to express the estimated ozone related, climate change-induced morbidity cases as a cost to the Canadian public health care system.
Identifier (PID): yul:776500