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Why Climate Literacy Is Health Literacy

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Health problems of global warming are daunting in severity and magnitude and will only get worse. Yet literacy about these problems is poor and plans to alleviate them are too early in development to be responsive to current levels of global threat and individual need. Social and ecological determinants of health and illness are exacerbated by excessive heat and flooding; lack of food, safe water, and secure shelter; and loss of arable land for farming. This article considers the nature and scope of ethicists' roles in awakening clinicians and the public to this crisis and offers 4 recommendations to reduce morbidity and mortality from climate change.

Source: The AMA Journal of Ethic

DOI: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.147

Authors: Larry R. Churchill, Gail E. Henderson, Nancy M.P. King

Institutions: Vanderbilt University Medical Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Wake Forest University

Language: English

Topic: Climate Change and Health Impacts

Subfield: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Climate action, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4391469449