Climate change has been called "biggest global health threat of the 21st century"by medical experts, with impacts including heatstroke, increased allergies, and respiratory illnesses from air pollution and wildfires. There's also increased dangers of malnutrition from food scarcity, new infectious diseases resulting from habitat loss, higher incidences of disease from water pollution, mental health impacts of climate migration and eco-anxiety, and stresses placed on healthcare staff and infrastructure.pIn iLiving Well in a Feverish World, iergency physician and award-winning researcher Courtney Howard describes the ecological, social and structural determinants of health, the health benefits of climate mitigation action, and outlines the rationale for a well-being orientated economy.pProviding all the information needed to help us understand how we can make each day better for ourselves, while helping to stabilize the ecological and social systs that underpin health.p
Living Well in a Feverish World
By Courtney Howard
Courtney Howard, an ergency physician and award-winning researcher describes the health impacts of the climate crisis, and what a healthy response to the ecological crisis would look like.Material available
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Pub Date: January 2026Format: 234 x 153mmExtent: 320 pagesAbout the Author
Dr Courtney Howard is an ergency Physician, and a Clinical Associate Professor in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. She is a nationally- and globally-recognized expert on the impacts of climate change on health. She's vice president of the Canadian Association of Physicians, winner of the Canadian College of Family Practice's Environmental Health Award in 2013. She also represented CAPE during COP1 when it became a founding board mber of the Global Climate and Health Alliance, and continues to be CAPE's main contact with the international climate-health community.
