Resources
Climate and health posters for patient exam rooms and waiting areas.
Fact sheets on climate, health, and environmental justice.
Climate change, health, and healthcare from Healthcare Without Harm
Climate impacts in the Southeast from the CDC
Environmental Justice from APHA
Climate Change, Health, and Environmental Justice from the EPA
Energy justice and climate change from APHA
Extreme heat, climate change, and health from APHA
Air quality, climate change, and health from APHA
Allergies, climate change, and health from APHA
Climate change and children's health from APHA
Mental health and climate change from APHA
Fact sheets on climate, health, and environmental justice (español).
El cambio climático, la salud, y la justicia ambiental - EPA
Como el calor extremo puede impactar la salud - NRDC
Cambio Climático y Salud Pública - LaRutadelClima
Forming a Greenteam/Sustainability team at your organization
Deeper dive into climate change, health, and equity.
This comprehensive guide from the Climate and Health Alliance is a resource to strengthen and inform your voice as a trusted health professional on climate change, health and equity. The guide explores the complex connections between climate change and health, disproportionate burdens and the impacts on health equity, and opportunities for solutions.
Free 4 week Climate Change and Health course from Emory School of Medicine covers Climate Change and Emerging Clinical Challenges, Health Equity and Social Justice, Climate Solutions for the Healthcare Sector, and Communicating about Climate Change. Students will learn about recognizing, managing, and mitigating the many-faceted consequences of climate change for health and healthcare delivery that they will face in their practice. Core lectures by climate and health experts from around the country anchor the elective.
This guide from ecoAmerica helps you to communicate effectively on climate and health. It synthesizes the latest academic research and message testing on climate communications from across the social sciences into a practical guide to support meaningful discussion of climate change and health
Background on air pollution and health.
Overview of health effects of air pollution in North Carolina
Air pollution, heat, and pregnancy outcomes: Bekkar B, Pacheco S, Basu R, DeNicola N. Association of Air Pollution and Heat Exposure With Preterm Birth, Low Birth Weight, and Stillbirth in the US: A Systematic Review. JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(6):e208243. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.8243
Effects of PM2.5 air pollution on mortality: Bowe B, Xie Y, Yan Y, Al-Aly Z. Burden of Cause-Specific Mortality Associated With PM2.5 Air Pollution in the United States. JAMA Netw Open. 2019;2(11):e1915834. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.15834
Mortality attributable to air pollution from fossil fuel combustion: Vohra K, Vodonos A, Schwartz J, Marais EA, Sulprizio MP, Mickley LJ. Global mortality from outdoor fine particle pollution generated by fossil fuel combustion: Results from GEOS-Chem. Environ Res. 2021 Apr;195:110754. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.110754. Epub 2021 Feb 9. PMID: 33577774.
Mortality attributable to air pollution from industrial agriculture: Domingo NGG, Balasubramanian S, Thakrar SK, et al. Air quality–related health damages of food. PNAS. 2021;118(20).
Inequitable distribution of PM2.5 air pollution: Tessum CW, Paolella DA, Chambliss SE, Apte JS, Hill JD, Marshall JD. PM2.5 polluters disproportionately and systemically affect people of color in the United States. Science Advances. 2021;7(18):eabf4491.
Background on climate change and health.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on 1.5C
The 2020 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change
Salas RN, Solomon CG. The Climate Crisis - Health and Care Delivery. N Engl J Med. August 2019.
The American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement on Climate Change and Children’s Health
The US Global Change Research Program: Climate and Health Assessment
Emory Climate Change and Clinical Medicine Elective videos
North Carolina climate risk assessment, mitigation, and adaptation plans.
North Carolina Climate Risk Assessment and Resilience Plan 2020
North Carolina Medical Journal Sept-Oct 2020 Issue dedicated to: Preparing for the Health Impacts of a Changing Climate
Durham County 2020 Community Health Assessment (see chapters 11 and 12 for climate impacts and air pollution respectively)
Climate change, clinical medicine, and healthcare training.
2019 AMA Policy Statement on Global Climate Change and Human Health
2019 AMA Policy Statement on Climate Change Education Across the Medical Education Continuum
Rabin BM, Laney EB, Philipsborn RP. The Unique Role of Medical Students in Catalyzing Climate Change Education. Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development. January 2020.
Philipsborn RP, Sheffield P, White A, Osta A, Anderson M, Bernstein A. Climate Change and the Practice of Medicine: Essentials for Resident Education. Academic Medicine. March 2021.
Senay E, Sarfaty M, Rice MB. Strategies for Clinical Discussions About Climate Change. Ann Intern Med. Mar 2021.
Healthcare sustainability.
Eckelman MJ, Sherman JD. Estimated Global Disease Burden From US Health Care Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Am J Public Health. Apr 2018.
Eckelman MJ, Huang K, Lagasse R, Senay E, Dubrow R, Sherman JD. Health Care Pollution And Public Health Damage In The United States: An Update. Health Affairs. Dec 2020
Tennison I, Roschnik S, Ashby B, Boyd R, Hamilton I, Oreszczyn T, Owen A, Romanello M, Ruyssevelt P, Sherman JD, Smith AZP, Steele K, Watts N, Eckelman MJ. Health care's response to climate change: a carbon footprint assessment of the NHS in England. Lancet Planet Health. Feb 2021.
Roadmap to Health Care Decarbonization, from Healthcare Without Harm.
Healthcare Without Harm seeks to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health and justice.
Practice Greenhealth is the leading membership and networking organization for sustainable health care, delivering environmental solutions to hospitals and health systems across the United States.
My Green Doctor is a practice management tool to help practices become environmentally sustainable.