Climate, Pollution, and Children's Health | NEJM

Physicians play an important role in caring for children and pregnant persons
affected by these changes. Physicians also can spread awareness of climate
change and engage in advocacy to improve health and equity.

00:00 Introduction
00:51 Extreme Heat
01:26 Climate-Intensified Extreme Events
02:03 Air Quality: Wildfire Smoke and Aeroallergens
03:00 Food and Water Supply and Safety
04:00 Changes in Vector Ecology
05:00 Air Pollution
06:28 Conclusion

#climatechange #pediatrics

[patrickcoin]

This is a well-produced, comprehensive overview. I'll be using this for instruction of an environmental science class. Thanks very much, NEJM! Also, thanks for making your print coverage of many important public health issues free to access.

[ChaiJung]

This was an incredibly dishonest take un part due to conflating the particulate matter which are primarily iron oxides with methane and carbon dioxide but moreso the attributing of every environmental disease to climate change. And, frankly, attempting to say climate change has caused and increase in autism or Lyme disease is silly at best and mortifying at worst that you all would believe that as doctors.