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Pressures on hospitals and other health services are being exacerbated by a failure to tackle climate change, a coalition of peak medical bodies have warned.
The warning comes with the release of the latest MJA-Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, an annual assessment of Australia’s progress in tackling climate change and its health impacts.
This year’s review confirmed health harms from life-threatening heat, severe drought, fires, and other disasters are contributing to deteriorating health system capacity.
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians president, Dr Jacqueline Small, said the flood devastation across Australia “forewarns increased frequency and intensity of all extreme weather events as a consequence of climate change”.
She said:
This is both an immediate and long-term reality.
We urge the federal government to move with urgency and ambition on plans for a national climate change, health and wellbeing strategy.
Continue reading…One of the seven taglines will tell online gamblers ‘chances are you’re about to lose’. Follow the day’s news livePressures on hospitals and other health services are being exacerbated by a failure to tackle climate change, a coalition of peak medical bodies have warned.The warning comes with the release of the latest MJA-Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, an annual assessment of Australia’s progress in tackling climate change and its health impacts.This year’s review confirmed health harms from life-threatening heat, severe drought, fires, and other disasters are contributing to deteriorating health system capacity.The Royal Australasian College of Physicians president, Dr Jacqueline Small, said the flood devastation across Australia “forewarns increased frequency and intensity of all extreme weather events as a consequence of climate change”.She said:This is both an immediate and long-term reality.We urge the federal government to move with urgency and ambition on plans for a national climate change, health and wellbeing strategy. Continue reading…