Health professionals are the cornerstone of public health security

Boyer, Elisa; Lazarus, C.; Messina-Gourlot, Catherine; Salomon, Jérôme

doi:10.1016/s2468-2667(19)30088-x

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“…Nevertheless, physicians are not confident in their knowledge about the topic of CC and health (Valois et al, 2016). Owing to some philosophical, political, organizational and professional constraints FDs/FPs and clinicians as whole do not feel themselves as key actors in such issues (Boyer et al, 2019) especially in the field of CC (Belkin, 2020; Solomon & LaRocque, 2019). Therefore, a significant opportunity exists for FDs/FPs to educate themselves and subsequently their patients about how CC can affect health on an individual and community level.…”

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Family doctors to connect global concerns due to climate change with local actions: State‐of‐the art and some proposals

Lauriola¹,

Serafini

Santamaria³

et al. 2021

World Med & Health Policy

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Climate change (CC) is the most challenging environmental health (EH) concern. Air pollution is closely linked to CC. However, many CC‐health‐related conditions (i.e., allergic diseases, asthma, hypertension, fluid and electrolyte disorders, child and adult obesity, type 2 diabetes, vector‐borne diseases) are not usually counted, either because they do not cause death or require hospital admission/emergency triage. They are the vast majority of health care seeking generally treated by family doctors (FDs) and family pediatricians (FPs). FDs/FPs are often not aware of CC‐health‐impacts. Their potential role in tackling such a global challenge through their local influence on individual and collective attitudes and policies is not considered. Proper FD training could fill these gaps, raise awareness of their role, and implement EH FDs/FPs‐based surveillance networks to collect, analyze, interpret, and report EH data to inform EH‐related Policy. FDs and FPs, organized in sentinel physicians' networks, could play a key role in advising policymakers at the local and regional level in designing interventions adapted to climate‐related issues. Such experiences are rare worldwide and not well known. We will describe and discuss them in detail to share successful local examples.

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