Climate Change, Environmental Health, and Challenges for Nursing Discipline

Omar Portela Dos Santos (), Pauline Melly, Stéphane Joost and Henk Verloo
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Omar Portela Dos Santos: Department of Nursing Sciences, School of Health Sciences, HES-SO Valais/Wallis, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, CH-1950 Sion, Switzerland
Pauline Melly: Department of Nursing Sciences, School of Health Sciences, HES-SO Valais/Wallis, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, CH-1950 Sion, Switzerland
Stéphane Joost: Geospatial Molecular Epidemiology Group (GEOME), Laboratory for Biological Geochemistry (LGB), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Henk Verloo: Department of Nursing Sciences, School of Health Sciences, HES-SO Valais/Wallis, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, CH-1950 Sion, Switzerland

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 9, 1-12

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: climate change; environmental health; planetary health; nursing discipline; sustainability; metaparadigm; environment; nursing interventions; health promotion; disease prevention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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