Why Climate
Health Professionals for Acton on Climate Change
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 negative 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 to positively interact with nature to improve their overall health and reduce their impact on the natural environment.
Elder-in-Residence Miigam’agan
Miigam’agan of clan Jagej from Esgenoôpetitj, is Elder-in-Residence at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, NB. To learn more, click on the Learn More button.
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.
Resources
Climate Change and Adult Health
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 Children's Health
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.
Managers Working in Health Care Settings
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
Climate Change and it's Impact on New Brunswicker's Health
How will climate change impact the health of all New Brunswickers? What steps do we need to take to protect ourselves from these impacts.
Two & Twenty Challenge
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.
The 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.
Climate Change and Adult Health
Climate Change & Cardiovascular Health
How engaging with nature can help with cardiovascular health
Climate Change & Respiratory Health
How exposure to nature and the outdoors can help with respiratory health in adults
Climate Change & Its Impact on Mental Health
How nature can be used to help with mental health issues.
Climate Change and Childerns’s Health
Climate Change & Early Life Development
What is the role nature plays in early childhood development
Climate Change & Respiratory Health in Children
How exposure to nature and the outdoors can help healthy respiratory health development in childern
Climate Change & Its Impact on Mental Health
How nature can be used to help with mental health issues.
Climate Change & Healthy Weights
How engaging with nature can help children with maintaining health weights.
Managers Working in Health Care
Water Conservation
How can you help to save water in a hospital setting
Medical Waste
Limiting the impact of medical waste on the planet.
Food Services
What is the role hospitals play in food production and waste within a community?
Purchasing
How to buy green for a hospital.
Climate Change and its Impact on New Brunswick
Climate & Vector Borne Diseases
How climate change will impact the spreading of vector-borne disease
Climate Change & Increasing NBersTemperatures
How will the rising temperatures impact the health of all NBers
Climate Change & Its Impact on Our Food Systems
How will Climate Change impact the availability of food we eat
Climate Change & Your Lung Health
How will your lungs be impacted by Climate Change?
Why Prescribe Nature ?
Knowledge is Power
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.
Health Benefits
Getting outside adds up fast whenever patients feel like they’ve had meaningful contact with nature, from walking to sitting on a park bench or climbing down a mountain. This makes the process of setting green-time goals patient-centred and self-directed.
Make Natural Spaces Part of the Solution
When working with patients towards changes in diet, exercise, and sleep habits, remember to add nature time as a recommendation and why nature is part of their health.
Make It Fun and Unique
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Take Part in the Two and Twenty Challenge
Two & Twenty Challenge
The Two & Twenty Challenge
What is the Challenge?
A simple way to get individuals active and interacting with nature more often. The TWO and TWENTY Challenge goals are is simple: over TWO weeks examine how getting outside is good for your health. 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
Why Climate Podcast
What is the Challenge?
Climate change and how it will impact your health is confusing. The Why Climate podcast aims to make it clearer. We are going to look at how protecting the planet isn’t just good for the health of the planet, but how it can help improve your health. Each quick episode gives you the what, why, and how on various climate change topics and how they affect your health. Giving you the information you need to make informed decisions about climate change and the steps you can take to limit your contribution to it, while improving your health along the way. Listen on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.