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Tuesday, December 22, 2020
IN THE JOURNAL

CLIMATE & HEALTH

Health Risks Due To Climate Change

Climate variability and change are harming human health. The health risks associated with a changing climate create new inequities and exacerbate those that already exist, explain Kristie Ebi and Jeremy Hess in an overview piece on the topic. In a related article, Ebi and coauthors describe detection and attribution methods used by climatologists to study climate change and discuss why this field of study should be applied to understand how climate change is affecting health. Ebi also joins us for a conversation on today’s podcast.

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Health Care Take Note: Every Greenhouse Gas Emission Matters
Kristie Ebi, Alan Weil

Listen to Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interview Kristie Ebi, a professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington, on the complex relationship between climate change and human health.

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

To Limit The Harms Of Step Therapy, Implement Robust Standards And Protect Physician Autonomy
By Jessica Burgy and Mark G. Lebwohl

Step therapy protocols should be nationally recognized and always based on clinical guidelines developed by independent medical experts to ensure that they are safe for patients. States should establish basic exemption requirements and require a transparent process by insurers to ease the burden on patients and physicians. Read More >>

A CLOSER LOOK—Health And Holidays: Depression

 The COVID-19 pandemic has made it a challenge to be cheerful this holiday season. As the weather in many places continues to get colder and COVID-19 cases increase, fewer people than usual will be spending the holidays with loved ones. For this reason, it is important to continue to prioritize mental health and revisit a previous discussion in Health Affairs about care for depression. In our March 2016 issue, Tara F. Bishop and coauthors report that the care management process is used less often for depression than for other chronic conditions In US primary care practices.

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