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How MIT Sloan’s Climate Interactive Tool Sheds Light on the Global Impact on Health from Climate Change

My Green Doctor

Climate Change: A Growing Health Crisis Climate change is often framed in terms of rising sea levels, melting ice caps, and extreme weather events. But a far more intimate, and often underreported, consequence lies in its toll on human health. Looking Forward Climate change affects us all, but it does not affect us equally.

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Green Practice News – The Climate Issue June 2025

My Green Doctor

In the United States, extreme weather events and air pollution are already costing the healthcare system over $820 billion annually. In India, rising temperatures are projected to slash outdoor labor productivity by 15% by 2050, compounding public health and economic stress. But this is not only a European story.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. The social determinants of health and what community well being was a big part of. I always knew that I wanted to get into healthcare, to use healthcare as a springboard for social change in our communities. Like, these are challenging things.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. It’s by choice, just like in the community. We have about 450 inpatient mental health beds. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Michele.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

Alex 10:53 Yeah, or like palliative care if they get a consult for whatever reason, but not trn consult, like standardized, you know, randomized to palliative care versus whatever they’re doing before. If they get palliative care consult, they get one. If they don’t, they don’t. It’s not case finding.