Climate change and antimicrobial resistance (AMR): The greatest global health threats of our time and their close relationship

This is an overview of the effects of climate change and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) on health and healthcare systems. Independently climate change and AMR are the biggest health threats to humanity. The effects of climate change are myriad and becomingly increasingly evident. AMR threatens to send us back to a time when we were unable to easily treat infections. Most worrying, and less reported, the two issues are linked. Future generations will experience the cumulative effects of climate change and AMR on the health of national and global populations.

As a profession, nursing staff have a duty to tackle these problems to protect the health of patients and the planet. To that end, this session will be of interest to all nurses everywhere but perhaps particularly those nurses linked to the entity’s hosting the session.

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