Climate change has been identified as a serious threat to human health, associated with the sustainability of current practices and lifestyles. Nurses should expand their health promotion role to address current and emerging threats to health from climate change and to address ecological public health. This article briefly outlines climate change and the concept of ecological public health, and discusses a 2012 review of the role of the nurse in health promotion.
Nursing Standard. 29, 24, 37-41. doi: 10.7748/ns.29.24.37.e9670
Correspondence Peer reviewThis article has been subject to double blind peer review
Correspondence to: b.goodman-1@plymouth.ac.ukReceived: 08 October 2014
Accepted: 06 November 2014
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