The Lancet Planetary Health, June 2025

Acceptability of health-only versus climate-and-health framings in lifestyle-related climate-sensitive health counselling: results of a randomised survey experiment in Germany

Climate-sensitive health counselling (CSHC) delivered by health professionals could promote individual patients and planetary health, particularly within lifestyle counselling. However, health professionals’ uncertainty about the acceptability of CSHC remains a barrier to implementation.

This study aimed to establish the effects of different topics and framings on patients’ acceptability of lifestyle-related CSHC.