Related Experiment Video
Updated: Oct 19, 2025

Using Generative Art to Convey Past and Future Climate Transitions
Published on: March 31, 2023
Communicating about climate change - Who is listening, who isn't and why: Implications for medical professionals
Lai Heng Foong1,2, Rebecca Huntley1,2,3
1Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Abstract:
Community concern about climate change in the community in general is strong and getting stronger but greater action on climate change is contingent upon whether the public sees strong links between climate effects and personal and community wellbeing in the present as well as the future. Medical and health-care professions can be effective messengers about the impacts of climate given their trusted status and ability to draw connections between climate change and physical and mental health.
More Related Videos
Related Concept Videos
Global Climate Change
What is Climate?
Barriers to Effective Communication II
Cultural barriers:
Differences in values, beliefs, religion, knowledge, and tradition can significantly impact communication. Awareness of nonverbal cues is critical, especially when conversing with a patient from a different culture. What appears appropriate in one culture may be inappropriate in another.
Semantic barriers:
As a result of their tendency to use...
Factors Affecting Body Temperature
Factors may include:
Dimensions of Health and Illness
Transmission-based Precautions II: Airborne and Protective Environment
Airborne precautions:
Use airborne precautions when treating patients known or suspected to have diseases that spread through the air—for example, tuberculosis or measles. These organisms are present in smaller droplets expelled by an infected person and...

