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(UFSM) Reducing climate change is good for your health
7More ‘climate-friendly’ investments in transport, energy and housing could help prevent significant noncommunicable disease, WHO review finds
Washington, D.C., 14 June 2011 (PAHO/WHO) – 6Greener investments in transport, housing and household energy policies can help prevent significant cardiovascular and chronic respiratory disease, obesity-related conditions and cancers.
These are among the findings of 10a new global World Health Organization series that looks systematically, for the first time ever, at the health ‘co-benefits’ of investments in climate change mitigation reviewed by the lntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Overall, 4sustainable development policies in housing, transport, and household energy may benefit health right away – even if the broader climate gains are realized over years or decades.
5“Some climate change mitigation measures yield broader health gains than others,” says Dr Maria Neira, director of WHO’s Department of Public Health and Environment. “Potential health benefits – as well as certain risks – should be considered more systematically in climate assessments. And if that is done, we can identify strategies that are truly win-win.”
2Many forms of asthma and allergies, as well as heart disease and strokes related to increasingly intense heat waves and cold spells could be addressed by more climate-friendly housing measures, the report finds.
As 8other examples of ‘best buys’ for health, initial findings from reviews of other sectors identify considerable evidence that:
— 1Investments in, and use of, safe walking/cycling and public transport networks are strongly associated with more healthy physical activity, lower rates of premature mortality, and less obesity. However, the last IPCC report focuses on better fuels and engines as mitigation measures, giving little attention to the much wider benefits offered by policies that favour walking, cycling and public transport. This neglects the broader range of health and social benefits that can be derived from adopting more sustainable transport.
— 3Deaths of more than 1 million people annually from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) due to indoor air pollution from traditional biomass and coal-fired stoves are largely avoidable with more energy efficient stoves. An estimated 15% of this burden in Latin American and Sub-Saharan African could potentially be averted in less than a decade if more advanced biomass or biogas stoves were introduced at a pace compatible with UN targets for achieving universal access to modern energy services by the year 2030.
“This series explains why green housing and home energy, transport, and urban environments can improve our health – and why the health sector can prevent much disease, at very little cost, by advocating for healthier investments in some key sectors,” says WHO’s Dr Carlos Dora, an epidemiologist and coordinator of the series.
As much as 1180% of chronic disease is now occurring in lower income countries, where urban growth is driving rapid slum expansion, soaring traffic volumes, air and water pollution and rates of traffic injury.
“9People really cannot make healthy lifestyle choices – unless they have a healthier environment,” Dora observes. “So we, as health professionals, need to promote basic environmental measures that cost the health sector very little, and can avoid many subsequent years of treatment. And these health savings can be captured immediately – while the climate benefits accumulate for the future.”
Glossário:
| change – mudança choice –escolha disease – doença finding – descoberta gain – ganho | health – saúde heart – coração housing – habitação income – renda measure – medida | mitigation – redução slum – favela stove – fogão yield – produzir, render |
Fonte: Disponível em: . Acesso em: 10 jul. 2012.
Considere os trechos a seguir.
I. “People really cannot make healthy lifestyle choices – unless they have a healthier environment” (ref. 9).
II. “a new global World Health Organization series that looks systematically” (ref. 10).
III. “80% of chronic disease is now occurring in lower income countries” (ref. 11).
Os segmentos sublinhados em I, II e III apresentam ideia de, respectivamente,
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(UERJ) Little Red Riding Hood
There once was a young person named Little Red Riding Hood who lived on the edge of a large forest full of endangered fauna and rare plants. One day her mother asked her to take a basket of organically grown fruit and mineral water to her grandmother’s house.
– But mother, won’t this be stealing work from the people who have struggled for years to earn the right to carry all packages between various people in the woods?
Red Riding Hood’s mother assured her that she had called the union secretary and had been given 1a special compassionate mission exemption form.
2– But mother, aren’t you oppressing me by ordering me to do this? Red Riding Hood’s mother pointed out that it was impossible for women to oppress each other, since all women were equally oppressed until all women were free.
On her way to grandma’s house, Red Riding Hood passed a woodchopper and wandered off the path in order to examine some flowers. She was startled to find herself standing before a wolf, who asked her what was in her basket.
– I am taking my grandmother some healthy snacks in a gesture of solidarity. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I would prefer to be on my way.
Red Riding Hood returned to the main path and proceeded towards her grandmother’s house. But the wolf knew of a quicker route to grandma’s house. He burst into the house and ate grandma, a course of action affirmative of his nature as a predator. He put on grandma’s nightclothes and awaited.
Red Riding Hood entered the cottage and said:
– Goodness! grandma, what big eyes you have!
– You forget that I am optically challenged.
– And grandma, what an enormous nose you have!
– Naturally, I could have had it surgically fixed, but I didn’t give in to such societal pressures, my child.
– And grandma, what very big, sharp teeth you have!
The wolf could not take any more of this, grabbed Little Red Riding Hood and opened his jaws so wide that she could see her poor grandmother in his belly.
At the same time, the woodchopper burst into the cottage, brandishing an axe.
– Hands off!, cried the woodchopper.
– And what do you think you’re doing?, cried Little Red Riding Hood. If I let you help me now, I would be expressing a lack of confidence in my own abilities.
– Get your hands off that endangered species! This is a police raid!, screamed the woodchopper.
– Thank goodness you got here in time, said the Wolf. I thought I was a goner.
– But mother, aren’t you oppressing me by ordering me to do this? (ref. 2)
In the sentence above, the word but fulfills the function of:
