Helping Educate Patients About Health Effects Of Climate Change Is Doctors’ Responsibility, Public Health Experts Say
The effects of a changing climate on health range from heat exposure, a worsening of chronic conditions because of air pollution, food insecurity, infectious diseases from ticks and insects, and more.
Los Angeles Times:
Climate Change Is Making Us Sicker And Shortening Our Lives, Doctors Say
In the welter of daily demands upon physicians, it might be easy to imagine that weaning the world off its reliance on fossil fuels is asking a bit too much. But preventing sickness and averting premature death are squarely in a physician’s wheelhouse. And dramatic increases in both are projected for the foreseeable future as the world’s continued reliance on fossil fuels results in more air pollution, infectious diseases, malnutrition, wildfires, extreme heat and increasingly powerful weather events. (Healy, 1/17)
In other public health news —
Orange County Register:
Santa Ana Woman Is Orange County’s 1st Flu-Related Death In 2019
The county’s Health Care Agency confirmed Thursday, Jan. 17, that a Santa Ana woman is Orange County’s first influenza-related death of a person under 65 this season. Officials said the woman had underlying health conditions and died from complications related to the flu. (Bharath, 1/17)