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🌫️ Air Pollution & Respiratory/Circulatory Health

  1. WHO – Air Pollution and Health

    • Focus: Heart disease, stroke, and lung cancer due to fine particulate matter.

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  2. EPA – Particulate Matter (PM2.5) and Your Health

    • Focus: Effects of PM2.5 on vulnerable groups like children and elderly.

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πŸ”₯ Climate Change Impacts

  1. CDC – Climate Effects on Health

    • Focus: Overview of how climate affects various health outcomes.

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  2. Health Canada – Climate Change and Human Health

    • Focus: Heat stress, vector-borne diseases, mental health.

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🌑️ Extreme Heat & Heat Stress

  1. CDC – Extreme Heat: A Guide to Health Risks

    • Focus: Who is most at risk and how heat affects human physiology.

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  2. Health Canada – Extreme Heat Events Guidelines

    • Focus: Guidelines to reduce heat-related morbidity.

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πŸ’§ Flooding, Water Contamination & Health

  1. UNEP – Health Risks from Flooding

    • Focus: Pathogens, mold, sanitation, injuries.

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  2. CDC – After a Flood: Health Tips

    • Focus: Clean water, food safety, mold risks.

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🧴 Toxins, Plastics, and Endocrine Disruption

  1. UNEP – Plastic Pollution and Human Health

    • Focus: Microplastics in water and food chains.

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  2. WHO – Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals

    • Focus: Chemicals that affect hormone systems, especially in children.

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πŸ› Pesticides & Neurological Impacts

  1. PAN – Health Impacts of Pesticides

    • Focus: Links to cancer, Parkinson’s, birth defects.

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  2. CDC – Agricultural Health Study

    • Focus: Long-term pesticide exposure risks.

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🏚️ Hazardous Building Materials

  1. Health Canada – Asbestos and Your Health

    • Focus: Asbestos exposure and cancer risk.

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  2. EPA – Lead Exposure in Homes

    • Focus: Neurological and developmental risks in children.

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🧠 Eco-Anxiety & Climate-Related Mental Health

  1. APA – Mental Health and Our Changing Climate

    • Focus: Eco-anxiety, PTSD from climate disasters.

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  2. Lancet Commission Summary – Climate Change and Mental Health

    • Focus: Overview of mental health risks from climate impacts.

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🦟 Vector-Borne Diseases

  1. CDC – Mosquitoes and Climate Change

    • Focus: Spread of Zika, dengue, malaria.

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  2. WHO – Vector-Borne Diseases and Urbanization

    • Focus: Climate, poor infrastructure, and increased disease.

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πŸ§ͺ Chemical Exposure & Chronic Disease

  1. WHO – Chemical Safety and Health

    • Focus: Chemicals in food, air, and household products.

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  2. Environmental Working Group – "Toxic Twenty" Chemicals

    • Focus: Common household chemicals with health risks.

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