Climate change is now having such a profound impact on our health that medical programs are changing the way they teach about it.
Climate change is now having such a profound impact on our health, medical programs are changing the way they teach about it.Scripps News spoke with an expert in a medical school program dedicated to training clinicians on the health effects of climate change.'Our program is really focused on trying to scale up a climate-savvy health care workforce,' said Dr. Jay Lemery, the director of Climate Change and Health Program at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
6 billion people already live in areas highly susceptible to climate change. And between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year.But there is a divide. According to a joint report by Yale and George Mason University, only 52% of Americans think extreme weather poses a high or moderate risk to their community over the next 10 years.
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