Anthony J Mcmichael
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 213907 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Anthony J Mcmichael |
| NOMBRES | Anthony J |
| APELLIDO | Mcmichael |
| FIRMA | MCMICHAEL A J |
| AFILIACIONES | Australian National University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Climate change and the health of nations
xx, 370 pages : 25 cm
From Cambrian Explosion to First Farmers
Details Blur As We peer back through millions of years, but the outline of the story is clear enough. During the past 2– 3 million years, our hominin forebears had to cope with an increasingly variable and cooling climate. Across those 100,000 Homo generations, survival and reproduction depended on maintaining biological and behavioral compatibility with constantly changing climatic and environmental conditions. Hence much of modern human biolog…
Will Global Climate Change Alter Fundamental Human Immune Reactivity
The human immune system is an interface across which many climate change sensitive exposures can affect health outcomes. Gaining an understanding of the range of potential effects that climate change could have on immune function will be of considerable importance, particularly for child health, but has, as yet, received minimal research attention. We postulate several mechanisms whereby climate change sensitive exposures and conditions will subt…
Population health in the Anthropocene
The health of human populations, measured by life expectancy, is at an historical high. Will this continue - or are we reaching Peak Health? The gains have been unequally shared, but the gap between low-income and high-income countries is narrowing. Meanwhile, there is clear evidence that levels of wealth per se do not predetermine population health, and that today's depleting and disrupting of Earth's biophysical, life-supporting, systems will s…
Globalization, Climate Change, and Human Health
The NEJM Image Challenge app brings a popular online feature to the smartphone. Optimized for viewing on the iPhone and iPod Touch, the Image Challenge app lets you test your diagnostic skills anytime, anywhere. The Image Challenge app randomly selects from 300 challenging clinical photos published in NEJM, with a new image added each week. View an image, choose your answer, get immediate feedback, and see how others answered. The Image Challenge…
Climate change threats to population health and well-being
BACKGROUND: The observational evidence of the impacts of climate conditions on human health is accumulating. A variety of direct, indirect, and systemically mediated health effects have been identified. Excessive daily heat exposures create direct effects, such as heat stroke (and possibly death), reduce work productivity, and interfere with daily household activities. Extreme weather events, including storms, floods, and droughts, create direct …
A multi-layered governance framework for incorporating social science insights into adapting to the health impacts of climate change
BACKGROUND: Addressing climate change and its associated effects is a multi-dimensional and ongoing challenge. This includes recognizing that climate change will affect the health and wellbeing of all populations over short and longer terms, albeit in varied ways and intensities. That recognition has drawn attention to the need to take adaptive actions to lessen adverse impacts over the next few decades from unavoidable climate change, particular…
Conservation Medicine
An Ill Wind? Climate Change, Migration, and Health
Background: Climate change is projected to cause substantial increases in population movement in coming decades. Previous research has considered the likely causal influences and magnitude of such movements and the risks to national and international security. There has been little research on the consequences of climate-related migration and the health of people who move. Objectives: In this review, we explore the role that health impacts of cli…
Planetary Stewardship in an Urbanizing World
Cities are rapidly increasing in importance as a major factor shaping the Earth system, and therefore, must take corresponding responsibility. With currently over half the world's population, cities are supported by resources originating from primarily rural regions often located around the world far distant from the urban loci of use. The sustainability of a city can no longer be considered in isolation from the sustainability of human and natur…
Governing for a Healthy Population
Enhancing the adaptive capacity of individuals, communities, institutions and nations is pivotal to protecting and improving human health and well-being in the face of systemic social inequity plus dangerous climate change. However, research on the determinants of adaptive capacity in relation to health, particularly concerning the role of governance, is in its infancy. This paper highlights the intersections between global health, climate change…
Non-heat related impacts of climate change on working populations
Environmental and social changes associated with climate change are likely to have impacts on the well-being, health, and productivity of many working populations across the globe. The ramifications of climate change for working populations are not restricted to increases in heat exposure. Other significant risks to worker health (including physical hazards from extreme weather events, infectious diseases, under-nutrition, and mental stresses) ma…
Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions
Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions
Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and the evolutionary paradox of the polycystic ovary syndrome
Worldwide, the high prevalence of the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), a heritable cause of ovarian infertility, is an evolutionary paradox, which provides insight into the susceptibility of well‐fed human populations to cardiovascular disease and diabetes. We propose that PCOS, Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and the Metabolic Syndrome are modern phenotypic expressions of a metabolic genotype attuned to the dietary and energetic conditions of the Pleisto…
Climate Change and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
Climate Change, Human Health, and Integrative Research
Global environmental change and health
Human pressures on the environment are damaging the world’s biophysical and ecological systems. A J McMichael and colleagues discuss the resulting unequal effects on health and set out strategies to help prevent and lessen the harm
International study of temperature, heat and urban mortality
BACKGROUND: This study describes heat- and cold-related mortality in 12 urban populations in low- and middle-income countries, thereby extending knowledge of how diverse populations, in non-OECD countries, respond to temperature extremes. METHODS: The cities were: Delhi, Monterrey, Mexico City, Chiang Mai, Bangkok, Salvador, São Paulo, Santiago, Cape Town, Ljubljana, Bucharest and Sofia. For each city, daily mortality was examined in relation to …
Food, livestock production, energy, climate change, and health
Climate change and human health
Emerging health issues
The spectrum of tasks for health promotion has widened since the Ottawa Charter was signed. In 1986, infectious diseases still seemed in retreat, the potential extent of HIV/AIDS was unrecognized, the Green Revolution was at its height and global poverty appeared less intractable. Global climate change had not yet emerged as a major threat to development and health. Most economists forecast continuous improvement, and chronic diseases were broadl…
Population Health As a Primary Criterion of Sustainability
Detecting the Health Effects of Environmental Change
Meat consumption trends and health
Humans come from a long line of meat-eaters. For much of the past two million years our hominid forebears have been evolving from scavenging to systematic hunting. This trend was intimately coupled with the evolution of the human brain, which now is much larger and more complex than was the brain of our mostly vegetarian australopithecine ancestors. In many hunter-gatherer communities meat became a major, even the majority, source of dietary ener…
Occupational Stress and Health among Factory Workers
James S. House, James A. Wells, Lawrence R. Landerman, Anthony J. McMichael, Berton H. Kaplan, Occupational Stress and Health among Factory Workers, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Jun., 1979), pp. 139-160
Planetary Stewardship in an Urbanizing World
Cities are rapidly increasing in importance as a major factor shaping the Earth system, and therefore, must take corresponding responsibility. With currently over half the world's population, cities are supported by resources originating from primarily rural regions often located around the world far distant from the urban loci of use. The sustainability of a city can no longer be considered in isolation from the sustainability of human and natur…
The Port Pirie cohort study
During a three-year period, 831 pregnant women in and around Port Pirie, South Australia--a lead smelter community with longstanding lead pollution--were enrolled in a cohort study to examine prospectively the relation between body lead burden and pregnancy outcome. Three-quarters of the enrolled women were residents of the Port Pirie municipality; the other women lived in adjacent towns and countryside. At 14-20 weeks' gestation, the Port Pirie …
Port Pirie Cohort study
The Port Pirie Cohort Study is an ongoing prospective study of the relationship between exposure to environmental lead within a lead smelter community, and neuropsychological development in early childhood. Over 600 children, originally recruited during antenatal life, underwent serial blood lead estimations up to two years of age. Systematic interview information was collected on a range of variables, and formal developmental assessment (Bayley …
Population health in the Anthropocene
The health of human populations, measured by life expectancy, is at an historical high. Will this continue - or are we reaching Peak Health? The gains have been unequally shared, but the gap between low-income and high-income countries is narrowing. Meanwhile, there is clear evidence that levels of wealth per se do not predetermine population health, and that today's depleting and disrupting of Earth's biophysical, life-supporting, systems will s…
Increasing Mail Questionnaire Response
Journal Article Increasing Mail Questionnaire Response: A Controlled Replication and Extension Get access JAMES S. HOUSE, JAMES S. HOUSE Associate Professor of Sociology Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar WAYNE GERBER, WAYNE GERBER Research Assistant Occupational Health Studies Group, University of North CarolinaChapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Patterns of help-seeking for mental illness among Australian University students
Patterns of help-seeking for mental illness among Australian University students
Man Under Stress
Man Under Stress A. J. McMichael CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.65.7.751 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Standardized Mortality Ratios and the "Healthy Worker Effect"
The age-standardized mortality ratio (SMR) is a relative index of mortality, expressing the mortality experience of the study population relative to that of a comparison ("standard") population. With the general population as the "standard", the SMR for an occupational population will underestimate the mortality experience of that latter population (since it comprises individuals necessarily healthy enough to be employable --and whose mortality r…
The relationship of normal, involuntary retirement to early mortality among U.S. rubber workers
Increasing Mail Questionnaire Response
Journal Article Increasing Mail Questionnaire Response: A Controlled Replication and Extension Get access JAMES S. HOUSE, JAMES S. HOUSE Associate Professor of Sociology Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar WAYNE GERBER, WAYNE GERBER Research Assistant Occupational Health Studies Group, University of North CarolinaChapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Occupational Stress and Health among Factory Workers
James S. House, James A. Wells, Lawrence R. Landerman, Anthony J. McMichael, Berton H. Kaplan, Occupational Stress and Health among Factory Workers, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Jun., 1979), pp. 139-160
The Port Pirie cohort study
During a three-year period, 831 pregnant women in and around Port Pirie, South Australia--a lead smelter community with longstanding lead pollution--were enrolled in a cohort study to examine prospectively the relation between body lead burden and pregnancy outcome. Three-quarters of the enrolled women were residents of the Port Pirie municipality; the other women lived in adjacent towns and countryside. At 14-20 weeks' gestation, the Port Pirie …
Port Pirie Cohort study
The Port Pirie Cohort Study is an ongoing prospective study of the relationship between exposure to environmental lead within a lead smelter community, and neuropsychological development in early childhood. Over 600 children, originally recruited during antenatal life, underwent serial blood lead estimations up to two years of age. Systematic interview information was collected on a range of variables, and formal developmental assessment (Bayley …
Tropospheric ozone
OBJECTIVE--To review the health effects of tropospheric ozone and discuss the implications for public health policy. DESIGN--Literature review and consultation with scientists in Australia and overseas. Papers in English or with English language abstracts were identified by Medline search from the international peer reviewed published reports. Those from the period 1980-93 were read systematically but selected earlier papers were also considered.…
Prisoners of the Proximate
"Modern epidemiology" has a primary orientation to the study of multiple risk factors for chronic noncommunicable diseases. If epidemiologists are to understand the determinants of population health in terms that extend beyond proximate, individual-level risk factors (and their biological mediators), they must learn to apply a social-ecologic systems perspective. The mind-set and methods of modern epidemiology entail the following four main const…
Climate Change and health
Climatic impacts on human health can be direct or indirect. Direct impacts include variations in physical comfort, heat and cold stress, frostbite and – specifically in response to stratospheric ozone depletion – sunburn, sunstroke, skin cancer and (possibly) cataracts. Direct impacts also include death and injury from floods, storms and other extremes of weather. Photochemical air pollutant levels and pollen levels are affected by climate and ha…
Debate on the paper by David Waltner-Toews
Disease and health outcomes occur within a complex socio-ecological context characterized by feedback loops across space and time, self-organization, holarchies, and sudden changes in organization when thresholds are reached. Disease control programs, even if they are successful, may undermine health; conversely, programs in agriculture and economic development designed to improve health may simply alter disease patterns. A research and developme…
Social and environmental risk factors in the emergence of infectious diseases
Drug-use patterns and risk factors among young offenders in Hungary
Detecting the Health Effects of Environmental Change
Meat consumption trends and health
Humans come from a long line of meat-eaters. For much of the past two million years our hominid forebears have been evolving from scavenging to systematic hunting. This trend was intimately coupled with the evolution of the human brain, which now is much larger and more complex than was the brain of our mostly vegetarian australopithecine ancestors. In many hunter-gatherer communities meat became a major, even the majority, source of dietary ener…
Integrating nutrition with ecology
Objective To show that current rates of global population growth, production and consumption of food, and use of living and physical resources, are evidently not sustainable. To consider ways in which nutrition and allied sciences can respond to this great challenge of the twenty-first century. Method Past, current and future projected trends in production and consumption patterns are examined. These show that overall present and projected patter…
The principles, definition and dimensions of the new nutrition science
Objective To specify the principles, definition and dimensions of the new nutrition science. Purpose To identify nutrition, with its application in food and nutrition policy, as a science with great width and breadth of vision and scope, in order that it can fully contribute to the preservation, maintenance, development and sustenance of life on Earth. Method A brief overview shows that current conventional nutrition is defined as a biological sc…
Climate change and human health
Emerging health issues
The spectrum of tasks for health promotion has widened since the Ottawa Charter was signed. In 1986, infectious diseases still seemed in retreat, the potential extent of HIV/AIDS was unrecognized, the Green Revolution was at its height and global poverty appeared less intractable. Global climate change had not yet emerged as a major threat to development and health. Most economists forecast continuous improvement, and chronic diseases were broadl…
Population Health As a Primary Criterion of Sustainability
Food, livestock production, energy, climate change, and health
Global environmental change and health
Human pressures on the environment are damaging the world’s biophysical and ecological systems. A J McMichael and colleagues discuss the resulting unequal effects on health and set out strategies to help prevent and lessen the harm
International study of temperature, heat and urban mortality
BACKGROUND: This study describes heat- and cold-related mortality in 12 urban populations in low- and middle-income countries, thereby extending knowledge of how diverse populations, in non-OECD countries, respond to temperature extremes. METHODS: The cities were: Delhi, Monterrey, Mexico City, Chiang Mai, Bangkok, Salvador, São Paulo, Santiago, Cape Town, Ljubljana, Bucharest and Sofia. For each city, daily mortality was examined in relation to …
Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions
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