Knowledge Check
These four scenarios were created to see how much you’ve learned in this module. The answers are for self-check only. Detailed explanations with primary sources are provided regardless of your response. Take your time. Priya Priya is a 34-year-old woman who presents with a 12-day history of progressively worsening fever—initially low-grade, now 39.8°C—accompanied by headache, […]
Case Study: Daniel
Each module in this topic series covers a distinct pathway. However, in clinical practice, these exposures co-occur in the same patients. Planetary health reasoning means seeing the whole picture rather than addressing each symptom in isolation. Tap the arrow to view the case.Daniel is a 38-year-old man who presents to the emergency department. This is […]
Equity and clinical integration
Vulnerability to climate-related water and food risk is not evenly distributed, and it is not random. Four practical questions organize the population groups below: Where a person lives. How sensitive a person is to the exposure. How much exposure they actually receive. What capacity do they have to adapt. Who carries the greatest burden? The […]
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. Increase in growing-season temperatures For every 1°C increase in average growing-season temperature, global yields of wheat, rice, maize, and soybean fall — by approximately 6.0% for wheat, 3.2% for rice, […]
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
This module focuses on two of the key climate exposure pathways in your planetary health curriculum: Water systems and food systems. The environmental justice lens from your Introduction to planetary health session carries forward into this module, as does the planetary boundaries framework. Your Extreme weather hazards module covered flooding as an acute disaster. This […]
Climate change: Impacts on water, food, and health
Sections
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 […]