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This resolution recognizes climate change as a critical public health threat and calls for comprehensive, coordinated action across federal agencies to mitigate its impacts. The resolution highlights numerous health risks posed by climate change, including increased respiratory illnesses, cardiovascular diseases, mental health complications, and higher rates of infectious diseases, which disproportionately affect vulnerable populations like communities of color, low-income communities, people with disabilities, and workers in high-risk sectors. It urges the Department of Health and Human Services to enhance healthcare sector climate readiness, prioritize technical assistance for underserved health systems, improve data collection on climate health impacts, reinstate key offices focused on climate change and environmental justice, and ensure robust funding for critical agencies and programs addressing climate-related health challenges. Additionally, the resolution recommends developing workforce training, supporting community-led resilience initiatives, establishing worker heat protection standards, and mandating annual progress reports to Congress on climate resilience investments and health outcomes. The ultimate goal is to protect and safeguard the health and well-being of all people in the United States through proactive, equitable, and coordinated climate adaptation strategies.

Health and Social Services

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-resolution/318/all-info