WHO should declare climate change a public health emergency

Harmer, Andrew; Eder, B; Gepp, Sophie; Leetz, Anja; Pas, Remco van de

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“…11 In some debates, climate change has become more than a risk factor, with increasing calls for the WHO to declare it a public health emergency. 12 From a public health perspective, COVID-19 needs to be appraised as part of a much bigger health picture. For instance, beyond the lethality and direct mortality rates of COVID-19, attention should be paid to the interaction with other pathogens, as well as to the more indirect effects of its mitigation measures.…”

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COVID-19: time for paradigm shift in the nexus between local, national and global health

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“…A less well-studied impact of face-to-face interviews is the environmental impact of long-haul flights, trains, and other forms of transportation. While these factors have not been directly evaluated as they apply to interview processes in medicine, there has been a recent emphasis on the role that healthcare practitioners play on climate change [5,6]. Solomon and LaRocque highlight the significant contribution to greenhouse gasses made by the healthcare sector and have posited that healthcare professionals have an ethical obligation to address climate change [5].…”

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“…Harmer and colleagues suggest that the World Health Organization (WHO) declares climate change as a public health emergency. Similar to infectious disease outbreaks, climate change has both direct and indirect effects on mortality, impacts health systems on a global scale, and requires urgent response to mitigate its ongoing detrimental effects [6]. As physicians with an obligation to do no harm, it is prudent to identify and implement measures to minimize our carbon footprint.…”

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Video-based interviewing in medicine: protocol for a scoping review

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Musselman

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Syst Rev

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Background Careers in healthcare involve an extensive interview process as transitions are made from one level of training to the next. For physicians, interviews mark the gateway from entrance into medical school, acceptance into residency, fellowships, and subsequent job opportunities. Previous literature outlining the costs associated with face-to-face interviews and concerns regarding the climate crisis has triggered an interest in video-based interviews. Barriers to transitioning away from in-person interviews include concerns regarding lack of rapport between applicants and interviewers, and applicants being less able to represent themselves. In a new era ushered in by COVID where many of us have utilized virtual meetings more than any prior time both personally and for work, we wanted to consolidate the current literature on the use of video-based interviews in healthcare and summarize the findings. Methods A scoping review will be conducted to explore the benefits and limitations of video-based interviews for both applicants and interviewers within healthcare fields, as well as the perceived barriers associated with transitioning away from face-to-face interviews. The scoping review methodology outlined by Arksey and O’Malley will be implemented. The search strategy developed by the authors in collaboration with an academic health sciences librarian will be conducted across four electronic databases (Embase, MEDLINE, Cochrane Central, and PsycInfo) and supplemented by a review of the grey literature and reference lists of included studies. The study selection process will be documented using the PRISMA flow diagram, and reasons for exclusion following full-text review will be recorded. The extracted data will be analyzed using quantitative and qualitative analysis. Discussion Despite previous literature on the costs associated with face-to-face interviews, there has been hesitancy with transitioning to video-based interviews due to concerns of lack of rapport between applicants and interviewers, and applicants being less able to represent themselves. While these limitations have been explored in previous studies, a succinct review of the current literature to guide the effective restructuring of the interview process is lacking. With our scoping review, we hope to fill this gap in the literature to better understand barriers to transitioning from face-to-face interviews and directions for future research.

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“…A less well-studied impact of face-to-face interviews is the environmental impact of long-haul ights, trains and other forms of transportation. While these factors have not been directly evaluated as they apply to interview processes in medicine, there has been a recent emphasis on the role that healthcare practitioners play on climate change 5,6 . Solomon and LaRocque highlight the signi cant contribution to greenhouse gases made by the healthcare sector and have posited that healthcare professionals have an ethical obligation to address climate change 5 .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Harmer and colleagues suggest that the World Health Organization (WHO) declare climate change as a public health emergency. Similar to infectious disease outbreaks, climate change has both direct and indirect effects on mortality, impacts health systems on a global scale, and requires urgent response to mitigate its ongoing detrimental effects 6 . As physicians with an obligation to do no harm, it is prudent to identify and implement measures to minimize our carbon footprint.…”

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confidence: 99%

Video-Based Interviewing in Medicine: Protocol for a Scoping Review

Selvam

Musselman

et al. 2020

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Background: Careers in healthcare involve an extensive interview process as transitions are made from one level of training to the next. For physicians, interviews mark the gateway from entrance into medical school, acceptance into residency, fellowships, and subsequent job opportunities. Previous literature outlining the costs associated with face-to-face interviews and concerns regarding the climate crisis has triggered an interest in video-based interviews. Barriers to transitioning away from in person interviews include concerns regarding lack of rapport between applicants and interviewers, and applicants being less able to represent themselves. In a new era ushered in by Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) where many of us have utilized virtual meetings more than any prior time both personally and for work, we wanted to consolidate the current literature on the use of video-based interviews in healthcare and summarize the findings. Methods: A scoping review will be conducted to explore the benefits and limitations of video-based interviews for both applicants and interviewers within healthcare fields, as well as the perceived barriers associated with transitioning away from face-to-face interviews. The scoping review methodology outlined by Arksey and O’Malley will be implemented. The search strategy developed by the authors in collaboration with an academic health sciences librarian will be conducted across four electronic databases (Embase, Ovid Medline, Cochrane Central, and PsycInfo) from 1947 to March 30, 2020 and supplemented by review of the grey literature and reference lists of included studies. The study selection process will be documented in accordance with the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, and reasons for exclusion following full text review will be recorded. The extracted data will be analyzed using quantitative and qualitative analysis. The protocol for this scoping review has been registered in Open Science Framework. Discussion: Despite previous literature on the costs associated with face-to-face interviews, there has been hesitancy with transitioning to video-based interviews due to concerns of lack of rapport between applicants and interviewers, and applicants being less able to represent themselves. While these limitations have been explored in previous studies, a succinct review of the current literature to guide effective restructuring of the interview process is lacking. With our scoping review, we hope to fill this gap in the literature to better understand barriers to transitioning from face-to-face interviews and directions for future research.

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WHO should declare climate change a public health emergency

Abstract: Rapid and potentially irreversible climate change poses a direct threat to global public health. Andrew Harmer and colleagues argue that WHO should recognise this in the same way as global threats from specific diseases

Cited by 31 publications

References 11 publications

COVID-19: time for paradigm shift in the nexus between local, national and global health

COVID-19: time for paradigm shift in the nexus between local, national and global health

Video-based interviewing in medicine: protocol for a scoping review

Video-Based Interviewing in Medicine: Protocol for a Scoping Review

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