International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | |
A Survey of African American Physicians on the Health Effects of Climate Change | |
Mona Sarfaty1  Mark Mitchell2  Brittany Bloodhart1  Edward W Maibach1  | |
[1]Center for Climate and Health, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, MS 6A8, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA | |
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[3]Commission on Environmental Health, National Medical Association, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA | |
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关键词: climate change; health impacts; medical practice; environmental health; climate and health; vulnerable populations; African Americans; | |
DOI : 10.3390/ijerph111212473 | |
来源: mdpi | |
【 摘 要 】
The U.S. National Climate Assessment concluded that climate change is harming the health of many Americans and identified people in some communities of color as particularly vulnerable to these effects. In Spring 2014, we surveyed members of the National Medical Association, a society of African American physicians who care for a disproportionate number of African American patients, to determine whether they were seeing the health effects of climate change in their practices; the response rate was 30% (
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