KFF Health News finds over 170 US medical facilities at risk of significant flooding due to climate change, with inland and coastal hospitals threatened. Preparedness is crucial. Hospital flooding risk.
Urbanization, climate change, and global travel drive chikungunya, dengue, and Zika outbreaks. Mosquito control, community action, and global coordination are crucial to prevention. Aedes mosquitoes, standing water.
Patnaik said the health risks of air pollution and climate change span a wide range of outcomes including infectious disease, weather-related morbidity and a variety of lung, kidney and cardiovascular maladies.
