Authors / citation | Survey population | Study year | Current health impacts | Future health impacts | |
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Public health | Maibach, Chadwick, McBride, Chuk, Ebi, & Balbus [34] | Dept directors (NACCHO) | 2007–2008 | 12 impacts: 13% unsafe sewage/septic-56% heat-related illness | 59% jurisdiction will experience more serious health impacts in next 20 years |
Dept directors (NACCHO) | 2011–2012 | 12 impacts: 11% unsafe sewage/septic-54% heat-related illness | 61% jurisdiction will experience more serious health impacts in next 20 years | ||
Bedsworth [39] | Officers (California) | 2007 | – | 94% very/somewhat serious threat; 9 impacts: 44% food-borne illness-91% extreme weather | |
Polivka, Chaudry, & Crawford [36] | Dept nursing directors | 2010 | 11 impacts: < 40% malnutriton-58% vector-borne diseases | 65% jurisdiction’s CC health impacts more serious within 20 years | |
Public and environmental health | Carr, Sheffield, & Kinney [40] | Officials (New York) | 2009 | 12 impacts: 25% air quality-50% storms, hurricanes, floods | 39% jurisdiction will experience more serious health impacts in next 20 years |
Carter, Koman, Cameron, Ferguson, Jacuzzo, & Duvall [41] | Officials (Michigan) | 2019 | 8 impacts: 12% mental health-53% vector-borne disease | 8 impacts increasing in next 20 years: 21% mental health-66% vector-borne disease | |
Environmental health | Syal, Wilson, Crawford, & Lutz [37] | Dept directors | 2010 | 12 impacts: 14% malnutrition-49% air quality | 46% jurisdiction’s CC health impacts serious |
McAdams, Rehr, Kobayashi, & DeArman [38]; EcoAmerica & Lake Research Partners [48, 49] | Member survey (NEHA) | 2016, 2017 | 5 cited personal impacts: 35% (2016), 33% (2017) personally affected by breathing problems, such as asthma-47% (2016), 46% (2017) affected by summer heat waves | 3 cited impacts of concern (2017): 19% health impacts from extreme weather; 24% vector-borne diseases; 39% health impacts from air pollution |