Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA; Division of General Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.
Pulmonary Critical Care Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
Chest. 2013 May;143(5):1455-1459. doi: 10.1378/chest.12-2384.
Climate change is a health threat no less consequential than cigarette smoking. Increased concentrations of greenhouse gases, and especially CO₂, in the earth's atmosphere have already warmed the planet substantially, causing more severe and prolonged heat waves, temperature variability, air pollution, forest fires, droughts, and floods, all of which put respiratory health at risk. These changes in climate and air quality substantially increase respiratory morbidity and mortality for patients with common chronic lung diseases such as asthma and COPD and other serious lung diseases. Physicians have a vital role in addressing climate change, just as they did with tobacco, by communicating how climate change is a serious, but remediable, hazard to their patients.
气候变化是一种不亚于吸烟的健康威胁。地球大气中温室气体浓度的增加，特别是二氧化碳，已经使地球明显变暖，导致更严重和持久的热浪、温度变化、空气污染、森林火灾、干旱和洪水，所有这些都使呼吸道健康面临风险。这些气候变化和空气质量的变化大大增加了哮喘和 COPD 等常见慢性肺部疾病以及其他严重肺部疾病患者的呼吸道发病率和死亡率。医生在应对气候变化方面发挥着至关重要的作用，就像他们对待烟草一样，向患者传达气候变化是一种严重但可纠正的危害。
