scholarly journals REVIEW OF EUROPEAN RESEARCH ON CURRENT CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ON HUMAN HEALTH

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.I. Lunyak ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Health Care Expenditures ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Current Climate ◽  
Ghg Reduction ◽  
Protection Strategies ◽  
Clean Air

Current climate changes have a significant impact on the human health and life quality. Negative factors of climate change threaten basic health components that human needs, such as clean air, safe drinking water, food safety, hygiene and sanitary living conditions, and can sweep away decades of progress in the field of health care protection. Strategies for climate change adaptation, directed at the GHG reduction, provide co-benefits that significantly reduce health-care expenditures.

scholarly journals Comprehensive home-based care coordination for vulnerable elders with dementia: Maximizing Independence at Home-Plus—Study protocol

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 123-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quincy M Samus ◽  
Karen Davis ◽  
Amber Willink ◽  
Betty S Black ◽  
Melissa Reuland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Care Coordination ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Health Care Expenditures ◽  
Dementia Care ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Health Care Innovation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Care Innovation ◽  
At Home

Introduction Despite availability of effective care strategies for dementia, most health care systems are not yet organized or equipped to provide comprehensive family-centered dementia care management. Maximizing Independence at Home-Plus is a promising new model of dementia care coordination being tested in the U.S. through a Health Care Innovation Award funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that may serve as a model to address these delivery gaps, improve outcomes, and lower costs. This report provides an overview of the Health Care Innovation Award aims, study design, and methodology. Methods This is a prospective, quasi-experimental intervention study of 342 community-living Medicare–Medicaid dual eligibles and Medicare-only beneficiaries with dementia in Maryland. Primary analyses will assess the impact of Maximizing Independence at Home-Plus on risk of nursing home long-term care placement, hospitalization, and health care expenditures (Medicare, Medicaid) at 12, 18 (primary end point), and 24 months, compared to a propensity-matched comparison group. Discussion The goals of the Maximizing Independence at Home-Plus model are to improve care coordination, ability to remain at home, and life quality for participants and caregivers, while reducing total costs of care for this vulnerable population. This Health Care Innovation Award project will provide timely information on the impact of Maximizing Independence at Home-Plus care coordination model on a variety of outcomes including effects on Medicaid and Medicare expenditures and service utilization. Participant characteristic data, cost savings, and program delivery costs will be analyzed to develop a risk-adjusted payment model to encourage sustainability and facilitate spread.

scholarly journals Investigation of the Relationship between Public Green Space and Urban Life Quality

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Razieh Teymouri ◽  
Rasul Ghorbani ◽  
Hamid Hojjati
Keyword(s):  
Green Space ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Urban Pollution ◽  
Urban Parks ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Clean Air ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Public Green Space

Today, the green space development is on the considerable rise due to the population growth and increase of urban construction as well as the human needs for green space to achieve the social, physical and spiritual balance. The green space improves the environmental conditions of cities on one hand, and provides the citizens with leisure time on the other. The present study aims at investigating the socio-psychological effects of urban parks on the improvement of citizens’ life quality via examining the factors encouraging the citizens of the Iranian city of Tabriz towards the urban parks. The findings of this research revealed that the citizens of Tabriz attend the aforesaid urban parks in order to access the clean air, family fun, pleasure, hiking and refreshment, and avoid any urban pollution and excessive small residential environment, as well as the recurring routine life. 

scholarly journals ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE DIET AND RECYCLING THERAPY FOR OLDER ADULTS’ WELL-BEING AND HEALTHCARE EXPENDITURES

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S734-S734
Author(s):  
Hsinyi Hsiao ◽  
Aaron Hagedorn
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Health Care Expenditures ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Medical Expenditure ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Longitudinal Effects

Abstract Due to the rapid climate change in recent years, global communities have seen an increased frequency of large-scale natural and man-made disasters. Acknowledging extravagant lifestyles and wasteful consumption of natural resources as prominent factors leading to intensified stress placed on the biosphere and ecosystems, many older adults with chronic medical conditions or disabilities in Taiwan have promoted environmental sustainability through two ways: 1) participating a recycling program in their local communities by collecting, sorting, and reclaiming reusable resources that are regenerated into eco-friendly blankets for disaster survivors and 2) practicing plant-based diet to promote healthy lifestyle and mitigate climate change. These older participants of environmentally sustainable initiatives believe the interconnectedness among humanity, the environment, and sustainable lifestyles. To understand association between the recycling therapy and older adults’ well-being a quasi-experimental design with 72 people age 60 and older (recycling group vs. non-recycling group) and photovoice were used to examine longitudinal effects of the recycling therapy on physical and mental health. To examine the effects of plant-based diet on dementia and health care cost ten-year data from Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Database were used by two studies to compare risk of dementia and medical expenditure between vegetarian and non-vegetarian groups among older adults in Taiwan. Four presentations in the symposium will discuss positive outcomes of environmental volunteering on older adults’ physical and mental wellness and longitudinal effects of a cohort with environmental-friendly diet on dementia risk and lower actual health care expenditures.

scholarly journals Air pollution sources in Ahvaz city from Iran

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Velayatzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Suspended Particles ◽  
Economic Damage ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Environmental Threat ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Clean Air

Human needs clean and healthy air. Clean air is more important than food and water. Industries and industrial activities produce a lot of gases and particles that pollute the air. Air pollution, as one of the concerns of the present age, in addition to environmental degradation and economic damage, poses serious risks to human health. Continuous monitoring of air quality to identify pollut- ants and identify sources of their emissions is also one of the basic strategies for controlling air pollution. Unhealthy air quality causes a lot of damage to humans and the environment and various health effects. Air pollution is a major environmental threat to human health in many developed or develop- ing cities around the world. The level of air pollution is usually determined by the concentration of air pollutants such as dioxide hydrogen, sulfur di- oxide, carbon monoxide, ozone and suspended particles. In recent years, air quality has been a major factor in the emergence of quality of life in urban areas, especially in densely populated and industrial areas. Air pollution with a wide range of suspended particles has effects on human health, including the respiratory and cardiovascular systems, as well as mortality. In this article, the effects of air pollution on the environment and sources and the source of pollution in Ahvaz city are introduced.

Climate Change Poses Serious Risks to U.S. Health Care System

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna E. Shalala ◽  
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Alfred Sommer ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Care System
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