Politico October 15, 2024
FUTURE THREATS
Policymakers should prepare for climate change’s effect on Americans’ medication needs, warns a new report from the RAND Corporation, a nonpartisan think tank.
How so? Anticipating that unusual weather events, such as extreme temperatures, rainfall, drought and wildfire pollution will cause more chronic disease, RAND experts used peer-reviewed and other research to develop a model to estimate how that could affect Americans’ medication needs.
RAND focused its model on four chronic conditions — cardiovascular disease, asthma, end-stage kidney disease and Alzheimer’s disease — because they are among both the most common chronic conditions and the leading causes of death in the U.S.
RAND’s report, partly backed by Department of Health and Human Services funding, was released earlier this...
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