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Gunnar Kvåle er professor emeritus.
Articles by Gunnar Kvåle
The climate crisis is a health crisis
- Gunnar Kvåle
25.07.2019:
A three-degree global temperature increase will give rise to a number of health challenges and widespread mortality. To prevent this, radical changes in policy and society are urgently needed. Poor people in countries near the Equator will be affected first and most severely, and serious damage will...
Climate change is a health issue
- Gunnar Kvåle
02.09.2014:
There are still no effective means of preventing climate change with very serious health consequences. Preventive measures will entail an about-turn in societal development and lifestyle, to bring about a rapid reduction in the use of fossil fuels. Healthcare workers have a particular responsibility...
Policy for improving global health
- Gunnar Kvåle,
- Bente Elisabeth Moen
13.05.2014:
A commission chaired by the University of Oslo in collaboration with The Lancet journal has studied ways to improve worldwide governance systems for global health. The report summarises knowledge with regard to unacceptably wide inequities in health and health services between and within countries...
International efforts for better health – Norway’s role
- Gunnar Kvåle,
- Halvor Sommerfelt
20.09.2011:
Poverty and poor health are closely linked. New targeted interventions, such as increased immunisation coverage, have contributed to improved child health in many countries. At the same time, global campaigns against certain diseases have led to an increasing fragmentation of the efforts to improve...
Climate change – the biggest health threat of our time
- Gunnar Kvåle,
- Lars Thore Fadnes,
- Morten Tryland,
- Lasse Pihlstrøm
06.09.2011:
Climate change represents a serious health threat. There is still a possibility of reducing the harm to life and health if the global community agrees on effective measures for bringing about rapid and substantial reductions in CO₂ emissions. Many of the measures involved, like choosing cycling and...
New network on climate and health
- Lars T. Fadnes,
- Gunnar Kvåle,
- Unni Gopinathan,
- Britt Grethe Randem,
- Guro Steine Letting
04.03.2011:
The Norwegian network on climate and health has been established to promote urgently-needed climate change measures. Global warming is described in The Lancet as the greatest threat to global health in the 21 st century (1). The serious health consequences predicted include diseases resulting from...