2022

Author(s): Guthman PL, Kaldenberg P, Cook C

Rural populations experience underinvestment in communication and technology infrastructure that may contribute to an information gap about climate change and the relationship to health impacts in rural communities. This report describes how a student and nursing faculty member provided community edu-cation to 3 rural communities about how climate change impacts the health of rural communities through the local community newspaper serving the 3 communities. Climate and health-related topics in a weekly newspaper column in this project included extreme heat events, Lyme disease, air pollution, water quality, soil health, environmental justice, and the role of the nurse in planetary health.(c) 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nurpra.2021.10.001