Climate Change

SAN ANTONIO — When patients are skeptical about climate change and its impact on their asthma or allergy, communication is still possible, according to a presentation at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting.

What are you going to do about global warming?

Change is far from incremental in allergy and asthma care based on the speakers and presentations scheduled for the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting in San Antonio from Feb. 24 to 27.

The number of reproductive-aged women and girls using modern contraception in low- and lower-middle income countries increased by 87 million since 2012, according to the most recent data from the UN Foundation’s Family Planning 2030.

Climate change and cancer share a root cause — our reliance on fossil fuels, according to Leticia M. Nogueira, PhD, MPH.

Children with asthma exposed to bushfire smoke demonstrated a clinically important 5% mean decrease in forced vital capacity percent predicted, according to a study published in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology.

Telehealth use for ambulatory services had positive impacts on patient travel distances, time and costs as well as greenhouse emissions, a study published in Telemedicine and e-Health found.

Data support the concept that a changing climate driven, in part, by human behaviors has had a growing impact on public health, with increasingly extreme weather events disproportionately affecting people at highest risk for CVD.

Earlier this year, the AMA declared climate change as a public health crisis threatening the well-being of all people.

Among privately insured individuals in the United States, the percentage of those diagnosed with heat exhaustion was 52.5% higher in June 2021 compared with June 2016, a new report found.