ICD10monitor November 29, 2023
The media often measures the impact of natural disasters in terms of their comparative costs, including costs to infrastructure and the cost to human life. As we know, weather-related disasters – heat waves, floods, hurricanes, and wildfires, to name a few – are increasing in frequency. In the 1980s, the U.S. experienced a billion-dollar natural disaster once every four months, on average. Now we experience a billion-dollar natural disaster once every three weeks.
What is often not included in the headlines of these disasters is the impact they have on American health and healthcare.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its National Climate Assessment. The report, required by Congress and published every five...
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