Health professionals can be a crucial ally in communicating climate change to the public. Through their various touchpoints in all community areas, health professionals represent a trusted voice and interact with people who may not otherwise be engaged in climate change.
Health professionals can be the first contact to members of the public, asking questions about their health and climate change.
We want to support health professionals as they educate and treat patients.
Here, you will find educational resources that may help you bring awareness to how climate change affects human health and the steps that can be taken to protect ourselves.
Who
Increasing a patient’s knowledge of climate change’s effects, including its adverse impacts on their health, is critical to combat climate change. Integrating climate and nature into health information will empower individuals to interact with nature more and be more engaged with solutions to climate change.
How
Evidence-based information helps build the capacity to engage in public health activities related to climate change and the positive impacts for patients when they interact with nature while helping to mitigate climate change and the effects on individual/population health due to climate change.
Why
To help facilitate and foster knowledge of the health effects of climate change while educating people on ways they can positively interact with nature to improve their overall health and reduce their impact on the natural environment.
Climate Change Resource
Climate Change & Adults
Climate Change impacts respiratory and cardiovascular health and mental well-being, increasing instances of vector-borne diseases and harm from extreme weather events.
Climate Change and Cardiovascular Health
Climate & Respiratory Health
Climate & Mental Health
Climate Change & Children
Those 20 years of age and younger are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change earlier and need green spaces to develop into healthy adults fully.
Climate Change & Early Life
Climate Change & Respiratory Health
Climate & Mental Health in Children
Climate Change & Healthy Weights
Climate Change & the Health Care System
Hospitals and health systems purchase various products from chemicals, electronics and plastics. to energy, pharmaceuticals and food. Creating and implementing green and ethical purchasing policies can play a central role in implementing many of the goals of the Green and Healthy Hospitals Agenda.
Water Conservation
Medical Waste
Food Service
Purchasing
Climate Change in New Brunswick
How will climate change impact the health of all New Brunswickers? What steps do we need to take to protect ourselves from these impacts?
Climate Change and Vector-Borne Disease
Climate Change & Increasing Temperatures
Climate Change & Food
Traditional Knowledge
Health from an Indigenous perspective is a whole and healthy person expressed through a sense of balance of spirit, emotion, mind, and body. Central to wellness is belief in one’s connection to language, land, beings of Creation, and ancestry, supported by a caring family and environment. These resources reflect those beliefs but can be used by any health practitioner to improve the wellness of all people.
Two & Twenty Challange
It is a simple way to get individuals active and interacting with nature more often. To complete the Challenge, all you need to do is be active in nature for 20 minutes (all at once), six out of the seven days in a given week.
Why Climate Podcast
Climate change and how it will impact your health is confusing—the Why Climate podcast aims to clarify it. We will look at how protecting the planet isn’t just good for the planet’s health but how it can help improve your health. Each quick episode gives you the what, why, and how of various climate change topics and how they affect your health.
