Core competencies to prepare health professionals to respond to the climate crisis

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  • Sorensen, Cecilia
    • Other Affiliation: Columbia University
  • Campbell, Haley
    • Other Affiliation: Columbia University
  • Depoux, Anneliese
    • Other Affiliation: Universite´ Paris Cite
  • Finkel, Madelon
    • Other Affiliation: Weill Cornell Medicine
  • Gilden, Robyn
    • Other Affiliation: University of Maryland, College Park
  • Hadley, Kristie
    • Other Affiliation: Columbia University
  • Haine, Dana
    • Affiliation: UNC Institute for the Environment
  • Mantilla, Gilma
    • Other Affiliation: Columbia University
  • McDermott-Levy, Ruth
    • Other Affiliation: Villanova University
  • Potter, Teddie M.
    • Other Affiliation: University of Minnesota
  • Sack, Todd L.
    • Other Affiliation: Florida International University
  • Tun, SanYuMay
    • Other Affiliation: University of Oxford
  • Wellbery, Caroline
    • Other Affiliation: Georgetown University
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  • The now well-described climate change impacts on human health and disease present an urgent challenge to health professionals and health care systems, calling for a focus on efforts to mitigate harm. Yet, with a few exceptions, such as the United Kingdom, climate change education is generally absent in the mainstream health professional education curriculum, creating a situation in which health care professionals lack the knowledge and skills to recognize, prepare for, and respond to current and future climate change-related health and health system threats in a meaningful way
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  • Attribution 4.0 International
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  • PLOS Climate
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  • 2
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  • 6
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  • e0000230
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  • English
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  • 2767-3200
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  • Public Library of Science

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