Special issue highlights peak oil and health connections

The September issue of the American Journal of Public Health is now available online featuring 8 studies and articles by an interdisciplinary set of experts, each examining the health risks posed by peak petroleum and what can be done to mitigate and protect against the onset of a major spike in energy prices.

The studies are entitled:

• Public Health and Medicine in an Age of Energy Scarcity: The Case of Petroleum
• Petroleum and Health Care: Evaluating and Managing Health Care's Vulnerability to Petroleum Supply Shifts
• Petroleum Scarcity and Public Health: Considerations for Local Health Departments
• Peak Oil, Food Systems, and Public Health
• Peak Oil, Urban Form, and Public Health: Exploring the Connections
• Peak Oil and Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Impacts and Potential Responses
• The Public Health Implications of Resource Wars
• Framing Peak Petroleum as a Public Health Problem: Audience Research and Participatory Engagement in the United States