The impacts of climate change on the environment and society are rapidly progressing, and as a result, physicians will see more climate-related health effects in clinical settings, several experts and organizations have warned.
Last year, the AMA declared climate change a public health crisis threatening the well-being of all people. According to AMA Board Member Ilse R. Levin, DO, MPH, patients already face adverse health effects due to climate change, such as heat-related injuries, vector-borne diseases, air pollution from wildfires, worsening seasonal allergies and storm-related illness and