As more people suffer from heat domes, wildfires, floods and other extreme climate events, a team of Oregon Health & Science University physicians are urging their colleagues to use data to address climate change’s many health impacts.
“Climate change is the biggest threat to our health — now, and in the future,” said Jennifer E. DeVoe, M.D., a professor of family medicine in the OHSU School of Medicine and first author of a commentary published in the Journal of Primary Care & Community Health that describes the new approach. “Physicians have a responsibility to help our patients manage and prevent climate-related health issues.”
DeVoe and colleagues are advocating for primary care teams to use a data-driven approach to help prevent and mitigate the adverse health impacts of climate change, which they’ve dubbed “precision ecologic medicine.”
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