Climate Health Overview

This presentation provides an overview of the climate crisis, emphasizing its effects on health through extreme heat, air pollution, and their related disease burdens, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes. Physicians will learn how these climate-related factors disproportionately impact vulnerable populations, exacerbating existing health disparities and highlighting the urgent need for environmental justice. By understanding these links, healthcare providers can better advocate for and implement preventative and adaptive strategies to safeguard patient health in a changing and warming world.

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Availability

On-Demand

Expires on Nov 04, 2027

Cost

Member: $0.00

Non-Member: $55.00

Credit Offered

1 CME Credit

1 ABIM-MOC Point

1 Participation Credit

Overview
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Learning Objectives
After completing this activity, learners should be able to:

To review background on climate change and broad effects on health, including disproportionate health harms in vulnerable populations.
To showcase specific examples of environmental exposures affecting health (heat, air pollution, PFAS, microplastics).
To briefly explain health systems’ contribution to the climate crisis.
To discuss how to integrate climate health content into medical education.

Faculty

Elizabeth A. Cerceo, MD, FACP, FHM

Faculty Disclosures
The faculty and planners of these activities have no relevant relationships to disclose. All relevant relationships were mitigated prior to the start of this activity.

Conflict of Interest Disclosure Policy
In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support, SHM requires that individuals in a position to control the content of an educational activity disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest. SHM mitigates all conflicts of interest to ensure independence, objectivity, balance, and scientific rigor in all its educational programs. All relevant financial relationships shall be disclosed to participants prior to the start of the activity.

Furthermore, SHM seeks to verify that all scientific research referred to, reported, or used in a continuing medical education (CME) activity conforms to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, and analysis. SHM is committed to providing its learners with high-quality CME activities that promote improvements in healthcare and not those of a commercial interest.

Accreditation Statement
The Society of Hospital Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CME Credit Statement
The Society of Hospital Medicine designates this online activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

MOC Credit Statement
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.00 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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SHM's Climate and Health for the Hospitalist series will provide you with foundational information on the topic to counsel patients, recognize the ecological determinants of health, and educate others.

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