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ProfessorChristopherMillett

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Professor of Public Health
 
 
 
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Location

 

Reynolds BuildingCharing Cross Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Vineis:2021:10.1002/1878-0261.12781,
author = {Vineis, P and Huybrechts, I and Millett, C and Weiderpass, E},
doi = {10.1002/1878-0261.12781},
journal = {Molecular Oncology},
pages = {764--769},
title = {Climate change and cancer: converging policies},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/1878-0261.12781},
volume = {15},
year = {2021}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Intervening on risk factors for noncommunicable diseases (including cancer) in industrialized countries could achieve a reduction of between 30% and 40% of premature deaths. In the meantime, the need to intervene against the threat of climate change has become obvious. CO2 emissions must be reduced by 45% by the year 2030 and to zero by 2050 according to recent agreements. We propose an approach in which interventions are designed to prevent diseases and jointly mitigate climate change, the socalled cobenefits. The present article describes some examples of how climate change mitigation and cancer prevention could go hand in hand: tobacco control, food production, and transportation (air pollution). Many others can be identified. The advantage of the proposed approach is that both longterm (climate) and shortterm (health) benefits can be accrued with appropriate intersectoral policies.
AU  - Vineis,P
AU  - Huybrechts,I
AU  - Millett,C
AU  - Weiderpass,E
DO  - 10.1002/1878-0261.12781
EP  - 769
PY  - 2021///
SN  - 1574-7891
SP  - 764
TI  - Climate change and cancer: converging policies
T2  - Molecular Oncology
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/1878-0261.12781
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/81898
VL  - 15
ER  -
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