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Housing quality and health outcomes in the United States are inextricably linked. As a matter of U.S. public health, substandard housing is associated with outcomes such as injury, respiratory infections, heavy metal (e.g. lead) poisoning and asthma. [1] It may also be associated with mental disability and with obesity and its related morbidities.
Climate change also disrupts the conditions communities need for good mental health and wellbeing. This includes impacts to air quality, food security, safe housing, transport, education and health care services. Climate change also interacts with other drivers of poor mental health, such as conflict and forced migration. [74]
The final synthesis report was finished in March 2023. It includes a summary for policymakers and was the basis for the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai. [1] The first of the three working groups published its report on 9 August 2021, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis.
Miami-Dade County is home to nearly 550 areas with a high displacement risk because of gentrification | Opinion
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If you have been waiting for prices to drop to buy a house, 2023 could be your year. However, the fall in housing prices doesn't bode as well for current homeowners -- or the overall U.S. economy....
The effects of climate change on human health are profound because they increase heat-related illnesses and deaths, respiratory diseases, and the spread of infectious diseases. There is widespread agreement among researchers, health professionals and organizations that climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century. [1] [2]
Since the Great Depression, the next most dramatic economic crash of the day came in 2008-09, when the overinflated housing bubble burst, sending the U.S. economy into free fall and devastating...