Health Affairs December 11, 2024
With scientists warning that 2024 will likely beat 2023 as the hottest year on record, there is growing acknowledgment that climate change—and especially extreme heat—presents a top threat to global public health. In 2021, more than 200 medical journals issued a joint statement urging global leaders to act to mitigate climate change and the “catastrophic harm to health that will be impossible to reverse.” Organizations such as the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the World Health Organization have all acknowledged the adverse health effects of climate change, which range from injury and death due to extreme weather events (for example, flooding, wildfires) to...
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