Climate change - how it will impact on your health and what you can do about it

Earlier this week, the Obama administration released a new report on climate change that focused on how environmental changes will impact our health. The three-year scientific assessment called upon some 100 experts, and is one of the most comprehensive looks to date at forthcoming public health issues that have not been widely discussed.

“The polls show that most people in the U.S. don’t even realize that there are health effects of climate change,” says John Balbus, M.D., senior advisor for public health to the director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, who lead-authored two of the nine chapters. “The report addresses a very common lack of knowledge.” Here, Balbus walks us through four major areas from the study that may impact your day-to-day life.

Read the Vogue story - “4 Ways That Climate Change Will Impact Your Health—And What You Can Do About It.”