Featuring: Suellen Breakey(link is external and opens in a new window), PhD, RN, FAAN, Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor, Associate Director, Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health School of Nursing
This presentation discusses the intersection of climate change and health equity, focusing on the disproportionate impacts of climate-related health threats on vulnerable populations and strategies for advancing climate and environmental justice.
Session Learning Objectives:
Describe the concepts of climate justice and environmental justice.
Identify social and environmental determinants of health that make individuals and communities more vulnerable to climate-related health threats (elderly, children, socioeconomically disadvantaged, homeless, immunocompromised patients, patients with chronic medical conditions/ Non-Communicable Diseases).
Evaluate health inequities related to air pollution exposures in communities and populations with adverse health impacts from excessive exposure to air pollution and other environmental injustices
