Health at #COP29: Workforce crisis meets climate crisis
▻https://redasadki.me/2024/11/18/health-at-cop29-workforce-crisis-meets-climate-crisis
Health workers are already being transformed by climate change. COP29 stakeholders can either support this transformation to strengthen health systems, or risk watching the health workforce collapse under mounting pressures. The #World_Health_Organization’s “COP29 Special Report on Climate Change and Health: Health is the Argument for #climate_action“ highlights the health sector’s role in climate action. Health professionals are eyewitnesses and first responders to climate impacts on people and communities firsthand – from escalating respiratory diseases to spreading infections and increasing humanitarian disasters. The report positions #health_workers as “trusted members of society” who are “uniquely positioned” to champion climate action. The context is stark: WHO projects a global shortage of (...)
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