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Guidelines for Modeling and Reporting Health Effects of Climate Change Mitigation Actions.

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Hess, JJ; Ranadive, N; Boyer, C; Aleksandrowicz, L; Anenberg, SC; Aunan, K; Belesova, K; Bell, ML; Bickersteth, S; Bowen, K; Burden, M; Dai, H ...
Published in: Environmental health perspectives
November 2020

Modeling suggests that climate change mitigation actions can have substantial human health benefits that accrue quickly and locally. Documenting the benefits can help drive more ambitious and health-protective climate change mitigation actions; however, documenting the adverse health effects can help to avoid them. Estimating the health effects of mitigation (HEM) actions can help policy makers prioritize investments based not only on mitigation potential but also on expected health benefits. To date, however, the wide range of incompatible approaches taken to developing and reporting HEM estimates has limited their comparability and usefulness to policymakers.The objective of this effort was to generate guidance for modeling studies on scoping, estimating, and reporting population health effects from climate change mitigation actions.An expert panel of HEM researchers was recruited to participate in developing guidance for conducting HEM studies. The primary literature and a synthesis of HEM studies were provided to the panel. Panel members then participated in a modified Delphi exercise to identify areas of consensus regarding HEM estimation. Finally, the panel met to review and discuss consensus findings, resolve remaining differences, and generate guidance regarding conducting HEM studies.The panel generated a checklist of recommendations regarding stakeholder engagement: HEM modeling, including model structure, scope and scale, demographics, time horizons, counterfactuals, health response functions, and metrics; parameterization and reporting; approaches to uncertainty and sensitivity analysis; accounting for policy uptake; and discounting.This checklist provides guidance for conducting and reporting HEM estimates to make them more comparable and useful for policymakers. Harmonization of HEM estimates has the potential to lead to advances in and improved synthesis of policy-relevant research that can inform evidence-based decision making and practice. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP6745.

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Environmental health perspectives

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EISSN

1552-9924

ISSN

0091-6765

Publication Date

November 2020

Volume

128

Issue

11

Start / End Page

115001

Related Subject Headings

  • Toxicology
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Humans
  • Epidemiologic Studies
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Coronavirus
  • Climate Change
  • COVID-19
  • Air Pollution
 

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Hess, J. J., Ranadive, N., Boyer, C., Aleksandrowicz, L., Anenberg, S. C., Aunan, K., … Ebi, K. L. (2020). Guidelines for Modeling and Reporting Health Effects of Climate Change Mitigation Actions. Environmental Health Perspectives, 128(11), 115001. https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp6745
Hess, Jeremy J., Nikhil Ranadive, Chris Boyer, Lukasz Aleksandrowicz, Susan C. Anenberg, Kristin Aunan, Kristine Belesova, et al. “Guidelines for Modeling and Reporting Health Effects of Climate Change Mitigation Actions.Environmental Health Perspectives 128, no. 11 (November 2020): 115001. https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp6745.
Hess JJ, Ranadive N, Boyer C, Aleksandrowicz L, Anenberg SC, Aunan K, et al. Guidelines for Modeling and Reporting Health Effects of Climate Change Mitigation Actions. Environmental health perspectives. 2020 Nov;128(11):115001.
Hess, Jeremy J., et al. “Guidelines for Modeling and Reporting Health Effects of Climate Change Mitigation Actions.Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. 128, no. 11, Nov. 2020, p. 115001. Epmc, doi:10.1289/ehp6745.
Hess JJ, Ranadive N, Boyer C, Aleksandrowicz L, Anenberg SC, Aunan K, Belesova K, Bell ML, Bickersteth S, Bowen K, Burden M, Campbell-Lendrum D, Carlton E, Cissé G, Cohen F, Dai H, Dangour AD, Dasgupta P, Frumkin H, Gong P, Gould RJ, Haines A, Hales S, Hamilton I, Hasegawa T, Hashizume M, Honda Y, Horton DE, Karambelas A, Kim H, Kim SE, Kinney PL, Kone I, Knowlton K, Lelieveld J, Limaye VS, Liu Q, Madaniyazi L, Martinez ME, Mauzerall DL, Milner J, Neville T, Nieuwenhuijsen M, Pachauri S, Perera F, Pineo H, Remais JV, Saari RK, Sampedro J, Scheelbeek P, Schwartz J, Shindell D, Shyamsundar P, Taylor TJ, Tonne C, Van Vuuren D, Wang C, Watts N, West JJ, Wilkinson P, Wood SA, Woodcock J, Woodward A, Xie Y, Zhang Y, Ebi KL. Guidelines for Modeling and Reporting Health Effects of Climate Change Mitigation Actions. Environmental health perspectives. 2020 Nov;128(11):115001.

Published In

Environmental health perspectives

DOI

EISSN

1552-9924

ISSN

0091-6765

Publication Date

November 2020

Volume

128

Issue

11

Start / End Page

115001

Related Subject Headings

  • Toxicology
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Humans
  • Epidemiologic Studies
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Coronavirus
  • Climate Change
  • COVID-19
  • Air Pollution