Groundbreaking study quantifies health costs of climate-change related disasters in the US
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 16:32
in Health & Medicine
Health costs exceeding $14 billion dollars, 21,000 emergency room visits, nearly 1,700 deaths, and 9,000 hospitalizations are among the staggering impacts of six climate change-related events in the United States during the last decade, according to a first-of-its-kind study published in November 2011 edition of the journal Health Affairs.