As medical professionals navigate busy days in temperature-controlled hospitals and seemingly indestructible health care systems, it can be easy to lose sight of the environmental chaos unfolding outside. The stark reality is that high levels of greenhouse gases caused by the combustion of fossil fuels - and the resulting rise in temperature and sea levels and intensification of extreme weather - are having profound consequences for human health and health systems.(1) The negative effects of climate change are frighteningly broad: they touch every human organ system, while challenging health organizations by interrupting supply chains and damaging public health infrastructure.(1,2) Whereas . . .
1.Massachusetts Gen Hosp, Dept Emergency Med, Boston, MA 02114 USA 2.Harvard Med Sch, Boston, MA 02115 USA 3.Harvard Global Hlth Inst, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Recommended Citation:
Salas, Renee N.,Malina, Debra,Solomon, Caren G.. Prioritizing Health in a Changing Climate[J]. NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE,2019-01-01,381(8):773-774