Climate Change and Health: Challenges to the Local Government Environmental Health Workforce in South Australia.

ABSTRACT: Climate change is the most urgent and significant public health risk facing the globe. In Australia, it has been identified that Environmental Health Officers/Practitioners (EHOs/EHPs, hereafter EHOs) are a currently underutilized source of knowledge and skills that can contribute to climate change adaptation planning at the local government level. The ability of local government EHOs to utilize their local knowledge and skills in human health risk assessment during a public health emergency was demonstrated through their role in the response to COVID-19. This study used a survey and follow up interviews to examine the roles and responsibilities of EHOs during the COVID-19 pandemic and used the results to examine the potential of the workforce to tackle climate change and health related is

SUBMITTER: Whiley H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10379352 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature