Climate Change: Dermatologists Address Impact on Health, and Mobilize to Increase Awareness
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Climate change will increasingly affect the distribution and frequency of insect-borne diseases, cutaneous leishmaniasis, skin cancer, fungal diseases, and a host of other illnesses that have cutaneous manifestations or involve the skin — and dermatologists are being urged to be ready to diagnose clinical findings, counsel patients about risk mitigation, and decrease the carbon footprint of their practices and medical organizations.
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@anup A session at the AAD's virtual annual meeting in April will address climate change and dermatology – the second such session at an annual meeting — and the first two of three planned virtual symposia led by Rosenbach and his colleagues, have been hosted by the Association of Professors of Dermatology. The ERG encouraged the AAD's adoption of a position statement in 2018 about climate change and dermatology and its membership in the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health.