Realizou-se um workshop sobre “What internists should know about the health effects of climate change?”, durante o Congresso Europeu de Medicina Interna, no dia 15 de março, em Atenas. Inscreveram-se 71 médicos oriundos de 21 países, incluindo Austrália, Taiwan, México, Estados Unidos, Islândia e outros. Foram quatro horas de profícua interação que seguramente contribuiu para aumentar a awareness dos internistas para este problema. A estrutura do Workshop foi:
Pre-congress workshop (European Congress of Internal Medicine, 2023)
Athens, 15 march 2023
Title: What internists should know about the health impact of climate change?
Organization: EFIM Quality of Care and Professional Issues Working Group.
Coordinator: Luís Campos (Portugal)
Objectives: To characterize the health impact of climate change, ecosystem degradation, loss of biodiversity, overpopulation and depletion of natural resources;
To understand how health systems can increase their resilience to respond to the epidemiological transition induced by climate change and unexpected events;
To know the main actions to reduce the ecological footprint of the health sector
To identify the health co-benefits of climate change mitigation activities;
To discuss how internists can prepare and intervene in the health consequences of climate change.
Methodology: Interactive teaching.
Topics and speakers
9:00h – 9:15h: Introduction and presentation of the participants
9:15h – 10:00h: What is the health impact of climate change and ecosystem degradation?
Luís Campos (Portugal)
10:00h – 10:45h: How the healthcare systems can prepare to respond to the health consequences of climate change?
Zeynep Komesli (Turkey)
10:45h – 11:00h: Coffee break
11:00h – 11:45h: How to reduce the ecological footprint of the health sector?
Luís Campos (Portugal)
11:45h – 12:30h: Which are the health co-benefits of climate change mitigation activities
Mine Durusu Tanriover (Turkey)
12:30 – 12:45h: How internists can prepare and intervene in the health consequences of climate change? Conclusions.
Luís Campos (Portugal)
12:45h – 13:00h: Evaluation
