Public Health and Health Care Infrastructure Policy

PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE INFRASTRUCTURE POLICY
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Public Health and Health Care Infrastructure Policy
World climate change has grown to be an environmental concern of the 21st century. From dried as well as cracked land in Africa to the photos of polar beard holding on to melting ice floes in Alaska, the pictures of the ecological climate change impacts have become significant in inspiring a debate about what climate change shall imply to the earth. The economic sectors contributing to this climate change include the US’s healthcare system.
The US’s healthcare system has high greenhouse gas emissions such that it can be categorized 13th in the globe if it was a nation (Kashef, 2016). The healthcare system utilizes massive energy amounts in form of energy services and goods, electricity and heating. The sector adds over 8% to the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. The overall emissions of diverse pollutants produced include direct ones from clinician’s offices and hospitals and indirect ones produced by its services, goods and energy suppliers.
These health-associated emissions connect to unique environmental as well as health outcomes including the environmental impacts of acid rain, cancers from chemical exposures, respiratory diseases from air pollutants, ozone depletion and global warming. Considering the diseases connected to climate change, different populations like public health agencies are specifically at risk.
Public health agencies are present throughout the US at all levels. Public health and school institutions along with others combine to establish the overall public health infrastructure in US which is big and complicated. The public health system plays a significant responsibility in the deterrence of climate change diseases. Owing to this, the agencies should be involved greatly in research, development as well as implementation of adaptation techniques to climate changes. There exists an evident need for research to comprehend climate change alterations on public health needs in the US and create maximal strategies to address them.
Health care and public health infrastructures intertwine. But, health care is very wide as well as complex compared to public health infrastructure. Starting from family clinicians in towns to complicated research hospitals in big towns, health care is the main provider of medical, pediatric and prenatal care, and personal health safeguarding and promotion. However, this infrastructure is faces climate changes in several ways.
Disasters like El Nino (Planton, 1999) can significantly prevent healthcare delivery with long lasting effects. Alterations in patient number and the wide range of diseases they come with can present in distinct areas as climate continues to alter. The information provided to people with acute disease and the infrastructure to back them may require adaptation to safeguard against climate triggered alterations that can increase their vulnerability (Patz, Campbel...