Climate change and health informatics: pilot survey of perspectives across the field.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Establish a baseline of informatics professionals' perspectives on climate change and health.

Materials and methods

Anonymized survey sent to 9 informatics listservs March 31, 2022 to April 15, 2022.

Results

N = 85 participants completed part or all of survey. Majority of participants worked at hospitals with 1000+ employees (73%) in urban areas (60%) in the United States. Respondents broadly reported general understanding of climate change and health (51%), but 71% reported unfamiliarity with technologies that could help clinicians and informaticians address the impacts of climate change. Seventy-one percent of surveyed wanted climate-driven environmental health information included in EHRs. Seventy-six percent of respondents reported that informaticians sh

SUBMITTER: Sarabu C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9667170 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature