Putting Health and Equity at the Center when Addressing Climate Change

HHS Press Office February 23, 2022
John Balbus, Interim Director of the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity within OASH and Christina Baghdikian, Acting Outreach and Engagement Lead, the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity within OASH

Summary:

Climate change is happening now, and the impacts on people and their health in the United States are real.

When many people think about climate change, they think about far-away places, like the Arctic, and far-away times in the future. But climate change is happening now, and the impacts on people in the United States (U.S.) are real. The face of climate change is a human face. In just this past year in the U.S.:

• thousands of people visiting emergency departments and many lost their lives in record setting extreme heat events in the North West,
• whole communities were traumatized by record setting wildfires and the smoke from these fires spread across the country exposing people to particulate...

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