{"id":25069,"date":"2024-03-01T14:33:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T13:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=25069"},"modified":"2024-03-01T14:34:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T13:34:27","slug":"there-is-an-urgent-need-for-universities-to-integrate-climate-education-into-their-curricula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/03\/01\/there-is-an-urgent-need-for-universities-to-integrate-climate-education-into-their-curricula\/","title":{"rendered":"The urgent need for universities to integrate climate education into the curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the World Health Organization, 23 % of all global deaths are caused by environmental factors, with an additional 250,000 climate-related deaths expected each year by 2030. Doctors are on the brink of addressing the immediate and long-term effects of climate change, from heat stroke to persistent anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these risks, few medical schools, either in Australia or internationally, incorporate climate education into their curricula.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2019 survey, the International Federation of Medical Students&#039; Associations found that only 16 % medical schools in 112 countries teach climate science.<\/p>\n<p>While the climate is changing rapidly, medical schools around the world have been slow to recognize the training needs of the next generation of doctors regarding the health consequences of a warming planet.<\/p>\n<p>We know that climate change is increasing the frequency, duration and severity of heat waves, floods, fires and droughts. (<em>More on <a href=\"https:\/\/lens.monash.edu\/@medicine-health\/2024\/03\/01\/1386485\/urgent-need-for-universities-to-incorporate-climate-education-in-curricula\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">lens.monash.edu<\/span><\/a><\/em>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the World Health Organization, 23% of all global deaths are caused by environmental factors, with an additional 250,000 climate-related deaths expected each year by 2030. Doctors are on the verge of addressing the immediate and long-term consequences of climate change, from heatstroke to chronic anxiety. Despite these risks, few medical schools, whether in Australia or [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}