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The health costs of climate change

This is a critical moment for redefining how governments approach health and climate change adaptation, and to respond effectively, Canadian policy-makers will have to expand their focus beyond public health and health care to also address the social and economic root causes of poor health and health inequity.

As temperatures increase, ground-level ozone (a component of urban smog) is projected to worsen. Towards the end of the century, the report estimates that ground-level ozone could cause more than a quarter of a million people per decade to be hospitalized or die prematurely, with an annual cost of about $250-billion, write Dylan Clark and Ryan Ness.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DYLAN CLARK AND RYAN NESS

June 7, 2021

Climate change isn’t just an environmental threat, it’s an emerging public health threat. And over the coming decades, it risks cutting short the lives of far too many Canadians while costing the healthcare system billions of dollars and the economy tens of billions in lost wages and productivit...

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