Australia’s health system unprepared for climate change, experts warn.

Australia is unprepared for coming health emergencies caused by global warming disasters, public health experts have warned.

Australia’s natural disasters are increasingly intense,
and our health system is struggling to cope. 

From floods to heatwaves, droughts, cyclones and bushfires, the “frequency, intensity, and duration” of natural disasters in Australia is increasing, and our health systems are struggling to cope, three leading public health experts said.

While Australia is geophysically stable and protected “to some extent” from “catastrophic events” such as earthquakes and tsunamis, we are vulnerable to “climate-related disasters and emergencies”, the researchers wrote in the Medical Journal of Australia on Monday.

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