Materials
Have you heard of the Guaíba Mine?Guaíba Mine and the emergence of the
Medicine on Alert network.Guaíba Mine Project: how it affects
human health.Grand Round of Hospital de Clínicas
de Porto Alegre: coal mining and
your health.We Only Have One House - 2019 Lancet
Countdown Report LaunchedWebsites with correlated contents:
BreathLife Campaign
https://breathelife2030.org/
WHO Air Pollution
https://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution#tab=tab_1
The Lancet Planetary Health
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/home
The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change
https://www.lancetcountdown.org/resources/
Climate Crisis and Health (The NEJM)
https://www.nejm.org/climate-crisis
Documents
WHO – Preventing disease through healthy environments: a global assessment of the burden of disease from environmental risks
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241565196
WHO – Don’t pollute my future! The impact of the environment on children’s health
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-FWC-IHE-17.01
WHO – Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
https://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution#tab=tab_1
Health Impact Assessment – HIA – Methodology adapted for application in Brazil
http://bvsms.saude.gov.br/bvs/publicacoes/avaliacao_impacto_saude_ais_metodologia.pdf
The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises (The Lancet)
https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(20)32290-X/fulltext
The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change Policy brief for Brazil 2019 (The Lancet)
https://storage.googleapis.com/lancet-countdown/2019/11/Lancet-Countdown_Policy-brief-for-Brazil_FINAL.pdf
GBD 2017 – Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)32225-6/fulltext
Scientific articles
Environmental risks and non-communicable diseases (The BMJ)
https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l265
How the low carbon economy can improve health (The BMJ)
https://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e1018/peer-review
Health benefits of policies to reduce carbon emissions (The BMJ)
https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.l6758
The Imperative for Climate Action to Protect Health (The NEJM)
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1902963
The Need for a Tighter Particulate-Matter Air-Quality Standard (The NEJM)
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2011009
Ambient Particulate Air Pollution and Daily Mortality in 652 Cities (The NEJM)
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1817364
Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health (The Lancet)
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)60901-1/fulltext
The inverse care law in the Anthropocene epoch (The Lancet)
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00304-4/fulltext
AHA Scientific Statement – Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease (Circulation)
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIR.0b013e3181dbece1
Regional and global contributions of air pollution to risk of death from COVID-19 (Cardiovascular Research)
https://academic.oup.com/cardiovascres/article/116/14/2247/5940460
For more scientific articles, see the references used by scientific societies in our Dossier or contact us falecom@medicinaemalerta.com.br. There are numerous articles on air pollution and the various specialties of medicine.
Request an independent Health Impact Assessment for the Guaíba Mine project
Six medical societies and two health societies from Rio Grande do Sul issued technical opinions requesting an independent Health Impact Assessment (HIA) in accordance with WHO (World Health Organization) criteria for the coal mining project at the Guaíba Mine (see the dossier here).
AMRIGS (Medical Association of Rio Grande do Sul) has also positioned itself (read here) about the risks that the Guaíba Mine project can offer to health. Join them and sign the petition for the HIA.