Hospitals and Healthcare

One suffocating city is a harbinger of health crises around the world.

Children, pregnant women and the elderly are the most at risk from extreme weather and heat – but the impact is already felt across every specialty of medicine

The AMA has joined other health organisations around the world – including the American Medical Association, the British Medical Association, and Doctors for the Environment Australia – in recognising climate change as a health emergency.At its August meeting in Canberra, the AMA Federal Council declared that climate change is real and will have the earliest and most severe health consequences on vulnerable populations around the world, including in Australia and the Pacific region.The Federal Council Motion reads:

We need to ende the burning of fossil fuels. The alternative is that we sleepwalk into a bleak future and our children will turn and ask us why we didn't do more to prevent it.

Experts say mounting environmental pressures will make people sicker, and that the health-care system will play a major role in averting disaster.

It's hard enough to attract and keep health workers in the Northern Territory as it is. Now climate change is threatening to make things worse.

Loss of property, hazardous air and reduced food security has transitioned into mass eco-anxiety

Greenland’s melting has been adopted by the world as its own problem. But for the islanders grieving their dissolving world, the crisis is personal, and dangerous

Global warming is posing immediate health hazards around the world and in the United States, from kidney disease to dengue fever, two new studies say.