Addressing Climate Changed-Linked Impacts through Mapping and Tools for Epidemiological Surveillance
Project Overview
The Addressing Climate Changed-Linked Impacts through Mapping And Tools for Epidemiological Surveillance, or ACCLIMATES, study aims to enhance knowledge of and capacity for public health surveillance related to climate change, air pollution, and chronic disease.
This project is built upon pilot work conducted in Edmonton, Alberta. It uses advanced epidemiological and geographic methods to create and validate vulnerability and risk-based surveillance tools to better understand how climate change and air pollution impact the health of older adults (aged 65+), immigrants, pregnant women, children and infants, and rural populations in Alberta.
Vulnerable populations are disproportionately affected by the negative impacts of climate change and air pollution.
We are focusing on older adults, immigrants, pregnant women, children and infants, and rural populations to identify their unique climate health experiences and needs in order to better inform public health policy and action.
Project Updates
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Details about the project objectives, guiding frameworks and project outputs
Dr. Yamamoto’s interview with Scientific American!
Shelby Yamamoto says Albertans are better prepared for colder weather, but heat is increasing as a priority. Read more here!
Surveillance plays a key role in understanding and response to the health challenges experiences by different groups and populations.
Traditional surveillance methodologies are limited in the information they are able to collect, especially for understudied and underrepresented groups.
By building vulnerability and risk-based surveillance tools by using several data sources, we are aiming to gain a more comprehensive and complete picture of climate change-related disease vulnerability and risk in the whole population.
For example, a system relying on passive surveillance will likely miss large proportions of certain populations (e.g., new immigrants) that may not have access to health facilities.