In our white paper, “Climate Health: the impact of climate change on doctors and healthcare professionals” we explore challenges and critical actions for the global health community.
Climate change poses significant challenges to human health and to the work of healthcare professionals. A changing global climate impacts populations in multiple ways, with the effects often felt more keenly in parts of the world with higher healthcare demand and limited resources.
The impacts on human health are both direct and indirect, entangling with one another into a complex web of interdependencies. Assessing the impact of climate on our health is therefore challenging yet vital.
As healthcare professionals, our lives are impacted along with the patients we care for and the communities in which we live. We urgently need to develop new knowledge and skills so that we can respond and adapt to new and growing demands on our practice.
We also need to face the growing challenges of deployment and address the healthcare needs of underserved communities, many of whom are facing the most significant effects of climate change.
Please join us in galvanising the healthcare community to:
1. ENGAGE doctors and healthcare professionals (HCPs) to improve understanding of the effects of climate change on the patients and public they care for.
2. SUPPORT doctors and HCPs through education to develop the knowledge they require to respond to evolving healthcare demands due to climate change.
3. EMPOWER doctors and HCPs to share their knowledge and skills to democratise medical education and improve patient care.
As a first step, we invite you to share the white paper widely, and to get in touch to share your insights.
In our white paper, we call on the medical community to join us in our mission to democratize medical education and to build climate-resilient healthcare systems. Please join the discussions, share insights and access free educational resources in our HCP-only forum: https://medshr.it/climate-health