Respiratory Health 🫁
This respiratory condition, characterized by inflamed airways and difficulty breathing, can be exacerbated by wildfire smoke exposure.
What is asthma?
This insect stemming from a family of small flies is a common vector for diseases.
What is a mosquito?
This term is defined by the idea that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible.
What is health equity?
This two-word term is defined by the degree to which people or communities are at risk of experiencing the negative impacts of climate change.
What is climate vulnerability?
This two-word term is defined by the efforts to reduce pollution and waste, conserve resources, and maintain an ecological balance.
What are green initiatives?
What greenhouse gas, largely responsible for global warming, also contributes to the frequency and intensity of wildfires?
What is carbon dioxide?
This vector-borne disease is common in tropical regions and transmitted by mosquitoes.
What is malaria?
This term represents the concept that the fundamental rights and interests of future generations must be treated with equal value to the rights and interests of those living today.
What is intergenerational equity?
This two-word term is defined as “the capacity of a community to anticipate, plan for and mitigate the risks — and seize the opportunities—associated with environmental and social change” brought about by climate change.
What is climate resilience?
This type of gentrification refers to the process by which climate change issues lead to the displacement of marginalized communities, leading to wealthier residents occupying areas that are perceived to be less vulnerable to climate-related risks.
What is climate gentrification?
This environmental factor, exacerbated by climate change, causes the release of allergens like pollen earlier and facilitates the growth of mold spores.
What are rising temperatures?
Approximately this fraction of India’s population is largely susceptible/facing infectious diseases.
What is ⅓?
This ethnic group lives in U.S. counties where pollution levels exceed federal air quality standards more frequently than in counties predominantly inhabited by Asians and other racial groups.
What are Pacific Islanders?
This three-letter acronym represents “government agencies that operate at the local level (such as in counties, cities, or regions) to protect and promote the health of the communities they serve”.
What is LHD?
This two-word, transportation-related type of urban planning proposal/green initiative has more recently been implemented in many polluted urban areas.
How many times more likely are minority groups prone to suffering from respiratory health issues due to lack of protection resources from air pollutants?
What is 2-3 times?
This number of climate zones are in India.
What is five?
This region named after a desert has historically experienced the highest malaria risk.
What is Sub-Saharan Africa?
This extreme weather event has, on average, become more intense as a result of warmer seawater surface temperatures, due to climate change.
What are typhoons?
This city is the most visited in Wisconsin and benefited from a freeway removal at the cost of its lower-income residents.
What is Milwaukee?
The combination of climate change and this systemic issue leads to unequal respiratory health outcomes for vulnerable populations.
What is structural inequity?
These types of communities span across all of India and face unique challenges in the context of climate change.
What are marginalized (communities)?
This biological adaptation is a major factor considered for the recent increase in malaria.
What is drug resistance/resilience?
According to the American Public Health Association, it is this many times more likely is it that an African American family lives in poverty than a White family.
What is three?
This marginalized neighborhood in Los Angeles introduced an effective solution to the limitation of freeway removals, such as gentrification and displacement resulting from green initiatives.
What is Pacoima?