Climate Change and Population Health

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

Description

This session invites submissions that consider how population health is impacted by climate change. Climate change is broadly defined to include topics such extreme weather events, rising temperatures, changes in land use and cover, and rainy day flooding. Health effects could include heat-related illnesses, respiratory and cardiovascular problems from air pollution and wildfires, the expansion of vector-borne diseases, impacts on food and water security, and negative effects on mental health from extreme weather events and displacement. Submissions that explore how vulnerability varies by age, economic status, and location are also welcome.

Sub Unit

• Sociology of Population Section / Climate Change and Population Health

Presider

• Ethan Raker, University of British Columbia

Individual Presentations

• Climate Threat: State climate policy, anticipatory stress, and population health - Meredith Caroline Riley, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

• Social Connectedness, Loneliness, and Heat Stress During Heat Waves. - Alvaro Padilla Pozo, Cornell University

• Socioeconomic Disparities in Mortality due to Extreme Heat - Benjamin Sosnaud, Trinity University

• The Unequal Distribution of Blackouts During South Africa’s Energy Crisis - Patrick Shaw, Brown University

Session Organizer

• Ethan Raker, University of British Columbia