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The National Health and Climate Strategy aims to build a sustainable, climate-resilient, high quality, net zero health system for Australia.
As doctors, we must use our powerful voices to communicate climate threats and solutions clearly, and demonstrate how deeply we care about addressing the climate impacts on the health of Australians.
A new study by researchers from the University of New South Wales, of 55 000 youth presentations to emergency departments with suicidal thoughts and behaviours demonstrates a clear link with hot weather.
By bringing health and the arts together in the form of a picture book, researchers are delivering their health findings to communities in a way that is easier to understand.
The role that interpreters play in health care is complex, difficult and largely unacknowledged. We couldn’t do our job without them.
Coal, oil and gas pose serious threats to human health, as evidenced by Doctors for the Environment Australia’s (DEA’s) new report Fossil Fuels are a Health Hazard.
With planetary health and human health inextricably linked, the health sector has a vital role to play in advocating for robust climate action from our policy makers.
As climate-related disasters around the world increase, so too does the burden of accumulated trauma on global mental health.
By focussing on the health impacts of climate change, health professionals can play a vital role in framing the need for climate actions in a way that is more personally meaningful and less controversial for the public and policy makers
