Bart J L, Bourque D A
Bathurst-Steeles Health Centre, North York, ON.
CMAJ. 1995 Oct 1;153(7):941-4.
The impact of weather on health is generally overlooked by physicians. Possible reasons for this include lack of training and insufficient awareness of the significant body of research on human biometeorology. The authors argue that, in the absence of clearly demonstrable causal connections, statistical associations between weather phenomena and health problems should be enough to influence clinical practice. Physicians in Germany make use of daily bulletins from the national weather service to advise patients on the management of common health problems that seem to be exacerbated by certain weather conditions. The authors urge Canadian doctors to follow the lead of their European colleagues by increasing their awareness of the relation between weather and health.
医生通常会忽视天气对健康的影响。造成这种情况的可能原因包括缺乏相关培训以及对大量人体生物气象学研究的认识不足。作者认为，在没有明确可证的因果联系的情况下，天气现象与健康问题之间的统计关联应该足以影响临床实践。德国的医生利用国家气象局的每日公报，就某些天气状况似乎会加剧的常见健康问题的处理方法向患者提供建议。作者敦促加拿大医生效仿欧洲同行，提高对天气与健康关系的认识。
