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Article: Nurses Take On Climate Change; Global Warming Emerges as Health Issue
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- The Washington Post
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- August 9, 2007
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Even nurses are starting to catch global warming fever.
Spurred by what they see as an increasing number of illnesses,
injuries and deaths related to global warming, a growing number of
public health professionals are campaigning for a reduction in
carbon dioxide emissions. They think of it as a form of preventive
medicine: Stop carbon dioxide emissions and global warming, they
say, and the risk of severe heat waves and tropical storms will
diminish.
"There's only so much that the public health infrastructure can
do to mediate a response to heat events," said Brenda Afzal, a nurse
and director of health programs at the University of Maryland School
of Nursing's Environmental Health ...