🌱IMSPARK: Improving health data with climate action 🌱

💡 Imagined Endstate: 

Health professionals and policy makers have better data and tools to track and prevent the health harms caused by climate change. 

🔗 Link: 

This article 

📚 Source: 

Wheat, S., Sarabu, C., & Lokmic-Tomkins, Z. (2023, November 28). How to improve health data for climate action. CNN. 

💥 What’s the Big Deal: 

Climate change is a huge threat to human health, but we don’t have enough data to measure its real-time impacts. 📊 This article argues that we need to improve the medical coding system to capture the climate-sensitive health conditions🏥 and inform better responses. 🌍 It also calls for a global study to assess the burden of climate change on health and to prioritize the health sector in climate adaptation funding.

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