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Record W4408141949 · doi:10.1093/phe/phaf003

Towards an Ethical Approach to Climate Change and its Health Risks for older adults

2025· article· en· W4408141949 on OpenAlexaff
Susan Deering, Ross Upshur

Bibliographic record

VenuePublic Health Ethics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicClimate Change and Health Impacts
Canadian institutionsHealth Sciences CentreUniversity of TorontoSunnybrook Health Science Centre
Fundersnot available
KeywordsClimate changeEnvironmental healthPsychologyGerontologyEnvironmental ethicsMedicinePhilosophy

Abstract

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Abstract Climate change is a public health threat that disproportionately impacts certain groups more than others. Getting old is something that most of us will experience during our lifetime, and older adults are among those at elevated risk for adverse impacts due to climate change. As a result, it behooves us as a society to consider how we will approach mitigating climate change impacts on older adults. We must carefully consider what ethical principles underpin the policies and laws that affect older adults, particularly as the world is facing increasing challenges with the distribution of resources. This paper argues for an ethical approach to climate change and older adults that is based on the care-ethic framework developed by Gilligan, Tronto and Fisher using case studies from New Zealand and Italy to illustrate how this framework could be applied.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.079
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.055
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.079
Threshold uncertainty score0.419

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0790.055
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0220.073
Scholarly communication0.0180.010
Open science0.0030.016
Research integrity0.0230.026
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.450
GPT teacher head0.482
Teacher spread0.033 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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