As a global open-access health journal, JAMA Network Open is issuing a call for papers on the health outcomes and risks associated with climate change.
JAMA Calls for Climate & Health Papers
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Video: Extreme Heat and Health
This video shares the stories of a heat educator and a pediatrician in North Carolina who have been dealing with the health impacts of increasingly extreme heat. It also talks about the threat of heat to workers and focuses on clean energy solutions.
How climate change threatens public health
From prolonged droughts to dangerous sun exposures, the weather affects human health in numerous ways, and climate change has already ratcheted environmental health threats up a notch. Disease-carrying bugs have expanded their range, hotter heat waves last longer, and storms have gotten more extreme.
IPCC Report: Climate Change and Land
An IPCC Special Report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.
Medical Schools Are Pushed to Train Doctors for Climate Change
More doctors, health organizations and students are pushing for medical education to include climate change, saying that physicians and other health-care workers need to prepare for the risks associated with rising global temperatures.
Forces of nature: Doctors linking environment, climate change to health issues
A growing number of physicians are keen to discuss their concerns about climate change and environmental factors impacting people’s health.
Underwater Climate Rally
The Underwater Climate Rally & March, was held on June 27, 2019, at the Freedom Tower, Miami Florida. Two murals were unveiled, which depict how dirty energy pollution is bad for our health, and clean energy solutions are health solutions.
Medical Groups Announce Policy Agenda and Call to Action on the Climate Health Emergency
More than 180 Health and Medical Groups call climate change a true public health emergency and urge policymakers to take action now…
Climate change is a ‘health emergency’ 74 medical and public health groups warn
June 24, 2019 – Climate change isn’t just a threat to the environment, it’s a threat to “our health and well-being,” experts say.