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ANHE Climate and Health Toolkit

What is the Toolkit?

Nurses are crucial to fighting climate change and protecting the health of patients, communities, and future generations. There are several simple (but meaningful) actions that nurses can take to support ...

Why Nurses

Why nurses must lead on climate The science is clear: climate change is one of the most serious threats to human health we face today… As nurses, we have a duty to provide our patients, communities, ...

Climate & Health 101

Climate Change and Nursing is a video series, produced by Dr. Barbara Sattler, RN, DrPH, FAAN and Michelle Ruiz, MA, Instructional Designer, that introduces the health threats posed by climate change ...

Nursing Collaborative

ANHE is a founding partner of Climate for Health, a national initiative that brings together leaders and institutions across the health sector committed to advancing climate solutions to protect the ...

Disaster Preparedness

Image: Creative Commons/Coastal Guard News Climate change is projected to contribute to more extreme weather events, including more extreme heat days, increases in frequency and intensity of heavy precipitation ...

Practice

Get Started Nurses, work in every community, from hospitals to academic institutions to health departments, and are already seeing the realities of climate change on the health of the public. In every ...

Policy and Advocacy

Nurses are trusted messengers of health information and have the opportunity to influence policy at all levels of government. There are almost 4 million nurses in the United States and when nurses advocate ...

Communications

Many people are unaware of the health consequences of climate and change and still view this issue as a purely environmental concern. Further, climate change is a complex and often politicized issue, which ...