Food, Nutrition, and Climate Change
Introduction? Pathway 1: Crop-yield reduction Heat, drought, and flooding reduce how much food the world can produce, and at a scale that is easy to underestimate. Yield sensitivity evidence For every 1°C increase in average growing-season temperature, global yields of wheat, rice, maize, and soybean fall (approximately): 6.0% for wheat. 3.2% for rice. 7.4% for […]
Case Study: Mateo
Tap the arrow to view the case.Mateo is a 4-year-old boy brought to a rural federally qualified health center (FQHC) in eastern Washington State with a 3-day history of profuse, watery diarrhea without blood. He has colicky abdominal cramping and mild vomiting. He has no fever. On examination, he is mildly dehydrated with dry mucous […]
Clinical Presentations
Filter by mechanism, then select any disease to see the full clinical picture. Review at least one disease before continuing. All Diseases Excess water Water scarcity Warming waters Cholera Pathogen: Vibrio cholerae. Climate mechanism: Flooding. Learn more about cholera. Typhoid fever Pathogen: Salmonella Typhi. Climate mechanism: Flooding. Learn more about typhoid fever. Hepatitis A Pathogen: […]
Climate Drivers of Water-Related Disease
Climate change disrupts water systems in two opposite directions, and a third mechanism operates across both. Select each pathway below to explore the mechanisms and associated diseases. Clinical pearl Rural Washington state has a high proportion of households reliant on private wells, making flooding-driven well contamination a clinically important local risk. Warming freshwater temperatures are […]
Introduction to Water- and Food-related Impacts
I created this introduction. Please feel free to change. The impacts of climate change include extreme weather events, rising sea levels, warming temperatures, and changes in precipitation. These impacts affect the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the weather we experience. The severity of the health risks depends on […]
Climate Change: Impacts on water, food, and health
Sections Everything below here is old content. Would you like to keep any of it? https://youtu.be/KQ64pK1MOr0 Climate Change: Impacts on the Hydrologic Cycle and Waterborne Disease These materials are based on the PowerPoint presentation by George Luber, PhD, of Emory University. Source: National Climatic Data Center, NOAA. Global Ocean Heat Content, 1955–2010.Source: NOAA/NESDIS/NODC Ocean Climate […]
Pediatrics resources
Resources for just-in-time clinical use, further learning, and exploration: Curated library, professional society, and publicly available web-based resources Traditional texts (in electronic format) Nelson’s Textbook of Pediatrics: This more voluminous and encyclopedic text compared to its “Essentials” counterpart is an excellent reference for deeper dives into topics that may be covered more shallowly, or for rarer […]
ACS International Away junk page
WSU process: choose site funding application WSU site application. will give dates clinical 4th-year elective also: https://globalhealth.med.ubc.ca/resources/ include: choose your site regularly visited sites databases funding WSU process: choose site funding application WSU site application. will give dates must-knows: curricular requirements pre-departure: resources (Joanna to send) packing CDC etc. while in country: managing […]
Bone and joint infections
Learning goals Describe the microbiologic agents of bone and joint infections, including age-specific and risk-factor-related pathogens Describe the pathophysiology of osteomyelitis and septic arthritis in terms of risk factors, routes of infection, and anatomic sites Describe the clinical manifestations and diagnostic approach for the different clinical forms of osteomyelitis (acute, chronic, diabetic foot infection) Describe […]
MS2 Complete Physical Examination
