Health-care professionals are increasingly recognizing the significant impact of climate and the environment on health. Experts emphasize the vulnerability of all individuals to climate change's effects on health, with pollutants and climate change contributing to millions of deaths annually from cardiovascular disease. The World Health Organization has prioritized climate and health as a strategic objective, emphasizing the urgent need to address climate change as a pressing public health issue.
At @UNFCCC #JuneClimateMeetings today, former #IPCC Working Group II author @BMHayward presented findings from #IPCC’s latest reports on the disproportionate impacts of #climatechange on children & relevant policy solutions. ➡️ https://t.co/31XeCHUuGl 📺 https://t.co/BIfEw3mTj0 https://t.co/yVN6W4EokE
The undeniable & intrinsic link between human & planetary #health underscores the urgent need to address #climatechange as a pressing #publichealth issue: @nishantssirohi & Lianne D’Souza https://t.co/KlowDi5Wvl
Pollutants and climate change contribute to millions of deaths from #cardiovascularDisease each year, warn scientists https://t.co/BHVjhNkXml
Dr. Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of The Lancet: "WHO made climate and health one of the agency's 6 strategic objectives for 2025 - 28...member states approved a far reaching resolution on climate and health. But we also should recognize that we meet at a time when the impacts… https://t.co/3hj0sjcCYX
“We are all vulnerable to the impact of climate change on health,” explains Lovena Preeyadarshini Mangroo, a medical epidemiologist from Mauritius @UN_News_Centre spoke with her at the #SIDS4 conference @SIDS4AB last week https://t.co/O5rPucX15r https://t.co/wQziPqacZa
Increasingly, health-care professionals are confronted with the reality that climate and the environment are major determinants of health, writes Mira Cheng for @ThinkGlobalHlth. https://t.co/1ec1cYvMay