Column: Climate-related health threats heat up | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Column: Climate-related health threats heat up | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

‘From Paradise to Precarity” — this is the title of an article recently published in the prestigious British The Lancet Regional Health medical journal, authored by public health researchers at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine. The article delivers a sobering message: climate change is already undermining public health in Hawaii and long-standing gaps in our health and environmental systems leave the state increasingly v…