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As smoke from the Canadian wildfires rolled over the East coast, New York City officials scrambled to respond as they confronted a lack of preparation for the emergency.
Experts say those exposed to wildfire smoke even briefly face a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and kidney failure. Babies, children, those with lung or heart issues, pregnant women, and the elderly are especially vulnerable
Daniel Kass is the senior vice-president (Environmental, Climate, and Urban Health) at Vital Strategies, where he leads a team working on using the tools of public health to address environmental threats and ensure healthy and sustainable outcomes for people living in an increasingly urbanised world. Kass is an expert on environmental health and environmental disease prevention, with 35 years of experience in enforcement, education, policy, and research programmes at Hunter College, as the head of environmental health for the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in New York City, and at Vit...
In 2011, the US Department of Health and Human Services launched the Million Hearts initiative, led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) with participation from a wide range of federal agencies, state governments, clinical consortia, community and professional organizations, and other partners. The goal of the initiative was to prevent 1 million myocardial infarctions and strokes over 5 years. To achieve this goal, community-wide preventive interventions were to reduce tobacco use and sodium consumption and eliminate artifi...