November 25, 2024 | Originally published in MedPage Today
By: Earl Stewart, Jr., MD
Climate change remains the eminent global public health threat of our time.
Many health informatics specialistsopens in a new tab or window, patients, and physiciansopens in a new tab or window alike are certainly interested in learning more about climate change. But reports suggest there is a paucity of toolsopens in a new tab or window and frameworks for mitigation and knowledge dissemination to fulfill this goal.
The physician-patient relationship is a crucial one in helping to foster educationopens in a new tab or window about climate change and health. Patients have a high level of trustopens in a new tab or window in their family medicine physicians regarding environmental issues, and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) has highlighted the roleopens in a new tab or window of emergency physicians in both educating and treating patients with disease manifestations and exacerbations related to extreme weather events and other effects of climate change…READ THE FULL ARTICLE>
Earl Stewart, Jr., MD, is an internal medicine physician in Atlanta, and a 2023 climate and health equity fellow with the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health.
The views of the author do not necessarily reflect those of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health or its members.