Published research on the human health implications of climate change between 2012 and 2021: cross sectional study
Objective To better understand the state of research on the effects of climate change on human health, including exposures, health conditions, populations, areas of the world studied, funding sources, and publication characteristics, with a focus on topics that are relevant for populations at risk.D...
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| author | Joseph S Ross Joshua D Wallach Ravi Gupta Kai Chen Kate Nyhan Maryam Mooghali Victoria L Bartlett Harry Doernberg |
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| description | Objective To better understand the state of research on the effects of climate change on human health, including exposures, health conditions, populations, areas of the world studied, funding sources, and publication characteristics, with a focus on topics that are relevant for populations at risk.Design Cross sectional study.Data sources The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences climate change and human health literature portal, a curated bibliographical database of global peer reviewed research and grey literature was searched. The database combines searches of multiple search engines including PubMed, Web of Science, and Google Scholar, and includes added-value expert tagging of climate change exposures and health impacts.Eligibility criteria Inclusion criteria were peer reviewed, original research articles that investigated the health effects of climate change and were published in English from 2012 to 2021. After identification, a 10% random sample was selected to manually perform a detailed characterisation of research topics and publication information.Results 10 325 original research articles were published between 2012 and 2021, and the number of articles increased by 23% annually. In a random sample of 1014 articles, several gaps were found in research topics that are particularly relevant to populations at risk, such as those in the global south (134 countries established through the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation) (n=444; 43.8%), adults aged 65 years or older (n=195; 19.2%), and on topics related to human conflict and migration (n=25; 2.5%) and food and water quality and security (n=148; 14.6%). Additionally, fewer first authors were from the global south (n=349; 34.4%), which may partly explain why research focusing on these countries is disproportionally less.Conclusions Although the body of research on the health effects of climate change has grown substantially over the past decade, including those with a focus on the global south, a disproportionate focus continues to be on countries in the global north and less at risk populations. Governments are the largest source of funding for such research, and governments, particularly in the global north, need to re-orient their climate and health research funding to support researchers in the global south and to be more inclusive of issues that are relevant to the global south. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7dcb4235319a46f690158c9811a99f822024-12-28T17:15:08ZengBMJ Publishing GroupBMJ Medicine2754-04132024-08-013110.1136/bmjmed-2023-000627Published research on the human health implications of climate change between 2012 and 2021: cross sectional studyJoseph S Ross0Joshua D Wallach1Ravi Gupta2Kai Chen3Kate Nyhan4Maryam Mooghali5Victoria L Bartlett6Harry Doernberg7Department of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USADepartment of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA3 Johns Hopkins Medicine School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA4 Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA5 Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USADepartment of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA1 Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA1 Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USAObjective To better understand the state of research on the effects of climate change on human health, including exposures, health conditions, populations, areas of the world studied, funding sources, and publication characteristics, with a focus on topics that are relevant for populations at risk.Design Cross sectional study.Data sources The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences climate change and human health literature portal, a curated bibliographical database of global peer reviewed research and grey literature was searched. The database combines searches of multiple search engines including PubMed, Web of Science, and Google Scholar, and includes added-value expert tagging of climate change exposures and health impacts.Eligibility criteria Inclusion criteria were peer reviewed, original research articles that investigated the health effects of climate change and were published in English from 2012 to 2021. After identification, a 10% random sample was selected to manually perform a detailed characterisation of research topics and publication information.Results 10 325 original research articles were published between 2012 and 2021, and the number of articles increased by 23% annually. In a random sample of 1014 articles, several gaps were found in research topics that are particularly relevant to populations at risk, such as those in the global south (134 countries established through the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation) (n=444; 43.8%), adults aged 65 years or older (n=195; 19.2%), and on topics related to human conflict and migration (n=25; 2.5%) and food and water quality and security (n=148; 14.6%). Additionally, fewer first authors were from the global south (n=349; 34.4%), which may partly explain why research focusing on these countries is disproportionally less.Conclusions Although the body of research on the health effects of climate change has grown substantially over the past decade, including those with a focus on the global south, a disproportionate focus continues to be on countries in the global north and less at risk populations. Governments are the largest source of funding for such research, and governments, particularly in the global north, need to re-orient their climate and health research funding to support researchers in the global south and to be more inclusive of issues that are relevant to the global south.https://bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/3/1/e000627.full |
| spellingShingle | Joseph S Ross Joshua D Wallach Ravi Gupta Kai Chen Kate Nyhan Maryam Mooghali Victoria L Bartlett Harry Doernberg Published research on the human health implications of climate change between 2012 and 2021: cross sectional study BMJ Medicine |
| title | Published research on the human health implications of climate change between 2012 and 2021: cross sectional study |
| title_full | Published research on the human health implications of climate change between 2012 and 2021: cross sectional study |
| title_fullStr | Published research on the human health implications of climate change between 2012 and 2021: cross sectional study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Published research on the human health implications of climate change between 2012 and 2021: cross sectional study |
| title_short | Published research on the human health implications of climate change between 2012 and 2021: cross sectional study |
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