Health Behavior and Population Health in the Era of Climate Change

Climate change is closely tied with human behaviors and health. With continuous industrialization and technological advances, modern people are living unimaginable prosperous lives. However, their increased greed leads to enormous environmental destruction, such as the indiscriminate consumption of air conditioners and disposable products, and short-distance driving. Air pollution has a bilateral relationship with climate change, which causes 7 million premature deaths per year. In the past two years, positive environmental changes have been reported as the COVID-19 pandemic halted human movement. This evidence requires us to adopt inclusive health behaviors with special attention toward environmental impacts. In this context, we will investigate the association between climate change and pro-environmental behavior (PEB), using Canadian and South Korean data. Additionally, we plan to compare recent data with previously collected data prior to the emergence of the COVID-19 to detect whether and how the pandemic had impacted PEB.

Faculty Supervisor:

Eun-Young Lee

Student:

Partner:

Seoul National University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Queen's University

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