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. 2022 Aug 25;7:98. Originally published 2022 Mar 18. [Version 2] doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17498.2

Table 1. The preliminary list of health outcomes and exposures/risk factors * that will be used to guide inclusion and exclusion as well as assist the extraction of data on health outcome/exposure types.

Adapted from Table 5 from Hassan et al. (2021), available under a CC-BY-4 license.

Health outcomes
Disease manifestations of poor diets (vitamin and mineral deficiencies)
Disease manifestations of air pollution (chronic lung and cardiovascular diseases)
Disease manifestations of increased climate sensitive pathogens (malaria, Lyme disease, West Nile virus, enteric diseases)
Weather-related morbidity and mortality with implications for productivity
Transport related morbidity/mortality (road traffic accidents)
Mental health conditions arising from climate-related exposures
Morbidity and mortality related to the urban heat island effect
Risk factors for ill health (based on the risk factors used in the Global Burden of Disease project ( Abbafati et al., 2020))
Childhood underweight and overweight
Diet low in fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts and seeds, seafood and omega-3 fatty acids
Diet high in red meats
Overweight and obesity (BMI)
Physical inactivity
Ambient particulate matter and ozone pollution
Household air pollution exposure
Noise pollution
Chemical pollution
Poor housing insulation leading to cold indoor conditions
Crowding / physical proximity
Exposures to climate change impacts
Disruptions to water supply and quality
Disruptions to energy
Disruptions to healthcare access
Disruptions to food supply
Displacement
Increase in climate sensitive pathogens and vectors (ticks, mosquitoes, sand flies)
Socio-economic determinants of health
Poverty
Homelessness
Unemployment
Female education and female participation in the workforce
Governance and decision-making processes

*We include both short-term health co-benefits of climate change mitigation as well as long-term impacts of climate change on health that can be avoided through climate change mitigation.