HCP Live April 19, 2024
Cerceo explains how the health care system contributes to climate change and the subsequent negative impact on patients, especially those in vulnerable or disadvantaged communities.
Worldwide, the health care industry contributes approximately 5% of total greenhouse gas emissions and similar fractions of toxic air emissions, coming primarily from the US health care sector and contributing directly to the climate change crisis.
In line with health care’s notable contributions to climate change, the health care system also feels the impact of changing climatic conditions, something 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)...
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