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In October 2021, the Environmental Health Matters Initiative (EHMI) organized the workshop Communities, Climate Change, and Health Equity—A New Vision, which identified a broad set of potential actions and actors that could lead efforts to address the intersection of climate change, health inequity and environmental injustice. Given that much of the authority for addressing these issues rests at the individual state level, EHMI is organizing the next workshop in the series on May 24 and 26, 2022. This workshop will focus on specific state-level actions and actors that could help improve climate-related health outcomes in disproportionately impacted communities.
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Communities, Climate Change, and Health Equity—State-Level Implementation: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief
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Because of historic and ongoing discriminatory policies and practices, certain populations - namely people of color, Indigenous people, and low-income communities - disproportionately suffer from the adverse impacts of extreme weather and other disasters that are exacerbated by climate change. To ex...
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