Elizabeth Cerceo, MD, on How to Address Health Care’s Impact on Climate Change

HCP Live April 20, 2024
Abigail Brooks, MA

Cerceo discusses key topics from her session at the ACP Internal Medicine meeting about health care providers’ role in discussing climate-related health with their patients

The health care industry accounts for approximately 5% of total greenhouse gas and toxic air emissions, coming primarily from the United States and contributing directly to the ongoing climate crisis.¹

Given the health care sector’s notable contributions to climate change, mitigation and adaptation efforts fall heavily on physicians and key stakeholders, a topic Elizabeth Cerceo, MD, associate internal medicine program director and director of environmental health in the division of hospital medicine at Cooper University Health Care, discussed in her session at the 2024 American College of Physicians (ACP) Internal Medicine Meeting in Boston.

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