Source: https://publications.aap.org/journal-blogs/blog/31273/Climate-Change-and-Child-Mortality-A-Higher?autologincheck=redirected

Climate change and climate-related disasters pose a real and increasingly severe threat to human health. In an article and accompanying video abstract being early released in Pediatrics this week, Dr. Caroline Stephens and colleagues from the University of California San Francisco, University of Louisville, and University of Utah note that children are especially vulnerable to climate-related injuries for multiple reasons (10.1542/peds.2024-067567): 

• Physiologically, they have more relative surface area that is exposed to the environment (e.g., heat) 
• Socially, they “depend on caregivers to flee” their built environment
• Structurally, most community hospitals are “less prepared to accept pediatric patients.”