We found that providers' perceptions of climate change as a public health issue are inextricably linked with their perceptions of larger scale environmental change and contamination, such as widespread pollution, deforestation, or fishery depletion.
Rosen didn't ask Coffman for the specific "viable sources" Coffman read on climate-change research grants, or whether Coffman thinks the National Science Foundation, for example, a major provider of climate-change research, is in the pocket of radical environmentalists.
We believe the utility of these focus groups is found in demonstrating an interest and receptivity of health providers to the topic of climate change and public health.
The focus groups sought to identify and explore providers' perceived health threats of climate change, as well as their perceived role as frontline disseminators of information and detectors of disease for their patients.
This qualitative study identified and explored providers' perceived health threats of climate change, as well as their perceived role as frontline disseminators of information and detectors of disease for their patients.
The rules also include sanctions against the teaching of creationism as scientific fact or promotion of climate change denial by childcare providers.
These health care providers' perceptions of their roles in the intersection of climate and health, however, have not been well-studied.
Documents provided to Greenpeace by the Smithsonian under the US Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) show that the Charles G Koch Foundation, a leading provider of funds for climate sceptic groups, gave Soon two grants totalling $175,000 (then roughly £102,000) in 2005/6 and again in 2010.
Other measures described in the strategy include expanding community and school gardens, educating health care providers about climate change, conducting health assessments of proposed mitigation and adaptation responses, and strengthening local emergency response for climate impacts.
The study is based on a review of existing reports on the market of climate services, and on interviews of 68 climate service providers and users in public and private organizations.
