Climate Action for Health: An Urgent Call from the Global Cardiovascular Community

Fausto J. Pinto; Kelcey Armstrong-Walenczak; Karen Sliwa

doi:10.5334/gh.1051

Climate Action for Health: An Urgent Call from the Global Cardiovascular Community

Global Heart

Volume 16 (2021): Issue 1

By: Fausto J. Pinto, Kelcey Armstrong-Walenczak and Karen Sliwa

Open Access

|May 2021

Abstract

The current and immediate past Presidents of the World Heart Federation are pleased to publish this invited editorial to demonstrate the organization’s strong, ongoing commitment to addressing the impacts of air pollution on cardiovascular health and outline its strategy for action.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.1051 | Journal eISSN: 2211-8179

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Language: English

Submitted on: Apr 9, 2021

Accepted on: Apr 19, 2021

Published on: May 3, 2021

Published by: Ubiquity Press

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

Keywords:

air pollution,

cardiovascular disease,

cvd,

environmental health impacts,

climate

© 2021 Fausto J. Pinto, Kelcey Armstrong-Walenczak, Karen Sliwa, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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