Global Climate Change and Children’s Health Committee on Environmental Health

ABSTRACT There is broad scientific consensus that Earth’s climate is warming rapidly and at an accelerating rate. Human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, are very likely (?90% probability) to be the main cause of this warming. Climate- sensitive changes in ecosystems are already being observed, and fundamental, potentially irreversible, ecological changes may occur in the coming decades. Conservative environmental estimates of the impact of climate changes that are already in process indicate that they will result in numerous health effects to children. The nature and extent of these changes will be greatly affected by actions taken or not taken now at the global level.

Physicians have written on the projected effects of climate change on public health, but little has been written specifically on anticipated effects of climate change on children’s health. Children represent a particularly vulnerable group that is likely to suffer disproportionately from both direct and indirect adverse health effects of climate change. Pediatric health care professionals should under- stand these threats, anticipate their effects on children’s health, and participate as children’s advocates for strong mitigation and adaptation strategies now. Any solutions that address climate change must be developed within the context of overall sustainability (the use of resources by the current generation to meet current needs while ensuring that future generations will be able to meet their needs). Pediatric health care professionals can be leaders in a move away from a traditional focus on disease prevention to a broad, integrated focus on sustainabil- ity as synonymous with health.

This policy statement is supported by a technical report that examines in some depth the nature of the problem of climate change, likely effects on children’s health as a result of climate change, and the critical importance of responding promptly and aggressively to reduce activities that are contributing to this change.The topic of this policy paper is Calworks Family Benefit program.

The Statement of topic study should be: How Calworks Family Benefit program benefit on child development

The paper should be use in APA format and must be 10 pages (not counting title, abstract, or reference pages). To support the policy paper, you should use at least 15 scholarly articles. None of your references should be older than 10 years with the majority being published within the past 5 years.
In order to help you get an idea on how to write the policy paper, you can review the article of Global Climate Change and Children’s Health.

To complete this assignment, please do the following steps:

Introduction to Paper
(Be sure to to include an abstract)

Begin with an introductory paragraph that lays out the format and direction of the entire paper
Statement of topic studied
Define any key concepts
Briefly discuss the importance of the topic within the context of child development

Current State of Affairs (For this part can use the information from gov.website as references)

Review the present state of affairs on your topic”include any key statistics (be sure to use as current as possible sources for this; also be sure they are highly credible sources).
Review any current policies and/or laws that are related to your topic

Deficiencies in Current Policy

Discuss the problems with the current situation
Review related research (look at actual research reports rather than literature reviews of research) and theory in child development that supports your view of the shortcomings of the current policy (you must you scholarly/peer reviewed journals for this）

Statement of Policy Suggestions

Present and discuss your ideas on how we should address the problem–You can list them in a numerical format for clarity if you like
Be sure to show a specific connection between your policy suggestions and the research and theory that you have reviewed. The research and theory should provide the evidence that your ideas will be more likely to produce positive outcomes than have the current policies