GPs are concerned about climate change's health impact, but many feel unprepared to address it. A survey by RACGP and the University of Notre Dame showed:
- 81% of GPs are concerned about climate change's effects on health.
- 70% recognize its relevance to their practice.
- 60% believe it currently affects patient health.
- 50% have experienced its effects personally.
Executive Director of Doctors for the Environment Australia and Adelaide GP Dr Kate Wylie, is co-lead of the project, ‘Climate change and health: A survey of attitudes, knowledge and behaviours of Australian GPs’.
‘Many of the respondents were concerned about the impacts on their patients’ health, but our findings also indicate that there is a sizeable number of our colleagues who are unaware that climate change is a health issue,’ she told newsGP.
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