Climate change, environmental health, and challenges for nursing discipline

Omar Portela dos Santos; Pauline Melly; Stéphane Joost; Henk Verloo

doi:10.3390/ijerph20095682

Climate change, environmental health, and challenges for nursing discipline

Omar Portela dos Santos^*, Pauline Melly^*, Stéphane Joost^*, Henk Verloo^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Current data and scientific predictions about the consequences of climate change are accurate in suggesting disaster. Since 2019, climate change has become a threat to human health, and major consequences on health and health systems are already observed. Climate change is a central concern for the nursing discipline, even though nursing theorists’ understanding of the environment has led to problematic gaps that impact the current context. Today, nursing discipline is facing new challenges. Nurses are strategically placed to respond to the impacts of climate change through their practice, research, and training in developing, implementing, and sustaining innovation towards climate change mitigation and adaptation. It is urgent for them to adapt their practice to this reality to become agents of change.

Original language	English
Article number	5682
Number of pages	12
Journal	International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Volume	20
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20095682
Publication status	Published - 28 Apr 2023

Keywords

Climate change
Disease prevention
Environment
Environmental health
Health promotion
Metaparadigm
Nursing discipline
Nursing interventions
Planetary health
Sustainability

UN SDGs

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