The health sector both contributes to climate change and must address its consequences: essential and elective care demand swings, diminished site and staff capacity, and cost pressures that threaten long-term viability. Health and life sciences organizations face physical risks of climate...
In the past decades, climate change has been impacting human lives and health via extreme weather and climate events and alterations in labour capacity, food security, and the prevalence and geographical distribution of infectious diseases across the globe. Climate change and health indicators (CCHIs)...
Climate change is impacting mental health in North America: A systematic scoping review of the hazards, exposures, vulnerabilities, risks and responsesClimate changemental healthNorth Americascoping reviewECOLOGICAL GRIEFPSYCHIATRIC COMORBIDITYYOUNG-PEOPLE...
a co-author of the report, who teaches emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School, said: "The climate crisis is impacting not only health for our patients but the way we deliver care and our ability to do
Climate change is severely impacting people's health around the world, a report by a leading medical publication has found. The Lancet Countdown report says the world's continued reliance on fossil fuels increases the risk of food insecur
Our climate has significantly changed, exceeding what the world has experienced over the last 650,000 years, and has been cited as the most significant health threat of the twenty-first century. Climate change is impacting health in unprecedented ways. While everyone is vulnerable to the health ...
Polluted air and steadily rising temperatures are linked to health effects ranging from increased heart attacks and strokes to the spread of infectious diseases and psychological trauma.
Connection to climate change While not conclusive, researchers are seeing more evidence that the melting arctic ice could be impacting the jet stream, a column of air in the upper atmosphere that helps drive weather systems. A warmer Arctic Ocean radiates more heat to the atmosphere in winter, ...
Climate change poses a significant risk to cardiovascular health. Rising temperatures, extreme weather, increases in greenhouse gasses and rising sea levels are threating human lives and dramatically impacting cardiovascular health. Exposure to poor air
Climate change endangers life on every continent, universally exacerbating a host of health conditions and damaging the essential drivers of our overall health and wellness. And the environmental threats to health outcomes and related impacts on other drivers of health (e.g., socioeconomic impacts on...