Sociology

Overview

This study investigates how health care professionals in British Columbia are navigating changes to their clinical and advocacy roles in response to the global climate crisis and its local manifestations. Climate change has been acknowledged as the predominant threat to human health and Canadian health care providers are necessarily changing their practices in response to the crisis. The health sector has been among the first to face the consequences of climate-related disasters, and is also a major emitter.

I am interviewing primary care providers in British Columbia in order to understand how they are responding to the climate crisis in their work. Exploring the responses of health workers to the crisis is relevant to efforts to reduce mortality and morbidity resulting from extreme weather and to reduce inequalities of health impacts.

For more information, please reach out to sarah.rudrum@acadiau.ca