Extreme weather events widen existing inequalities and traumatise victims while climate anxiety affects mental healthMedical students are demanding their schools include the climate crisis as a core component of the curriculum, as the intensifying climate emergency highlights the corresponding health crisis.Hannah Chase, a final year medical student at Oxford said the sense of urgency hit home recently when a fellow student confessed they didn’t believe in climate change. “It just shows that we make such assumptions,” said Chase. “It’s needed, this education.” Continue reading… Source – Full Article https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/17/uk-medical-schools-must-teach-about-climate-change-say-students