Taxonomy Archive: advocacy
20 Apr 2018 |
Climate change isn’t just an environmental problem. If you ask Michael McGeehin, climate change is a health crisis. McGeehin is an epidemiologist who spent more than 30 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He developed the CDC’s Climate Change Program. McGeehin was recently in Miami for an international ...
20 Apr 2018 |
Climate change is above all a question of public health. Doctors are in the front-line in responding to the harm from climate turmoil. We have a privileged position and a moral duty to protect and promote the population’s health.
20 Apr 2018 |
The World Health Organisation predicts that by 2030, climate change will cause an extra 250,000 deaths per year.Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty says in the longer term, the numbers could be ‘infinitely worse’ caused less by the spread of infectious diseases, but by the health impacts of food insecurity and social ...