As more people suffer from heat domes, wildfires, floods and other extreme climate events, a team of Oregon Health & Science University physicians are urging their colleagues to use data to address climate change’s many health impacts.
As more people suffer from heat domes, wildfires, floods and other extreme climate events, a team of Oregon Health & Science University physicians are urging their colleagues to use data to address climate change’s many health impacts.
“Climate change is the biggest threat to our health — now, and in the future,” said Jennifer E. DeVoe, M.D., a professor of family medicine in the OHSU School of Medicine and first author of a commentary published in the Journal of Primary Care & Community Health that describes the new approach. “Physicians have a responsibility to help our patients manage and prevent climate-related health issues.”
DeVoe and colleagues are advocating for primary care teams to use a data-driven approach to help prevent and mitigate the adverse health impacts of climate change, which they’ve dubbed “precision ecologic medicine.”
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