Blum Center Program: Climate Change and Health Series – Populations at Higher Risk for Health Consequences of Climate Change
Factors and climate change impacts that contribute to health disparities are discussed in this presentation.
Safe Care CommitmentGet the latest news on COVID-19, the vaccine and care at Mass General.Learn more
VideoSep | 27 | 2022
We increasingly rely on single-use disposable medical devices, under misguided notions that they are proven safer and cheaper than reusable devices. This has resulted in increased health care expenditures, waste, pollution, and associated health damages. This also leaves health systems vulnerable to supply chain disruption and demand fluctuations. Should we move back to reusable devices?
This webinar is co-hosted by the Center for the Environment and Health at Massachusetts General Hospital and the MGH Institute of Health Professions (IHP) Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health.
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Epidemiology in Environmental Health Sciences
Director, Program on Healthcare Environmental Sustainability (PHES)
Yale University
Factors and climate change impacts that contribute to health disparities are discussed in this presentation.
Climate change impacts our health, nutrition, and food sources. This presentation offers an overview of the effects of climate change that are causing complex health challenges in the community.
Barbara Belanger, DNP, RN, CNOR, gives an overview of the impacts of waste on our climate-changing environment and health, as well as healthcare initiatives for sustainability.
Drs. Patrice Nicholas and Suellen Breakey offer an overview of how extreme heat and weather, poor air quality, hurricanes, flooding, rising sea levels, and post-disaster health challenges affect our mental health.
Drs. Patrice Nicholas and Suellen Breakey review the impact of climate change as one factor that influences the spread of diseases carried by vectors such as fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes, as well as Lyme disease.
In this webinar, Dr. Paul Biddinger discusses how the healthcare system needs to change how it identifies climate-related threats and better prepares to preserve its ability to function in the face of future disasters.