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Improving Health Care Quality

How Climate Change Affects Our Mental Health, and What We Can Do About It

Explainer / Mar 29, 2023

Little water remaining in a drying lake bed. Nevada continues to suffer through a drought.

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Making Good on Climate Pledges for Health Care

Blog / Nov 04, 2022

Cars submerged in Orlando, Florida, following Hurricane Ian on October 1, 2022. As climate change contributes to stronger weather events in Florida and across the U.S., health care organizations are taking steps to become more resilient.

Improving Health Care Quality

How Health Care Organizations Are Preparing for Climate Shocks and Protecting Vulnerable Patients

Publication / Oct 20, 2022

Aaron Bernstein, M.D., M.P.H.

Improving Health Care Quality

Safeguarding Patients from the Health Effects of Climate Change: An Interview with Aaron Bernstein

Publication / Oct 20, 2022

An ambulance sits in the emergency department bay of Lincoln Medical Center in the Bronx borough of New York City on Apr. 16, 2020.

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How the Inflation Reduction Act Can Help the Health Care Sector Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Blog / Sep 22, 2022

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Improving Health Care Quality

Action to Decarbonize the U.S. Health Care System: Lessons from the U.K.’s National Health Service

Issue Briefs / Jul 26, 2022

Man sprays with hose a house on fire in smoky neighborhood

Improving Health Care Quality

The Impact of Climate Change on Our Health and Health Systems

Explainer / May 04, 2022

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How the U.S. Health Care System Contributes to Climate Change

Explainer / Apr 19, 2022

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Advancing Health Equity

Getting to Net Zero: One Health System Fights Climate Change

Podcast / Jan 28, 2022

President Biden's Health Care Dilemma

Achieving Universal Coverage

President Biden’s Health Care Dilemma

Blog / Feb 10, 2021

Improving Health Care Quality

What Hurricane Maria’s Death Toll Reveals About Health Care in Puerto Rico

Blog / Jun 07, 2018

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Improving Health Care Quality

To Be High Performing, the U.S. Health System Will Need to Adapt to Climate Change

Blog / Apr 18, 2018