“Stickier” learning through gameplay: An effective approach to climate change education

Climate Change eduCation through tV WeatherCasts

AFFILIATIONS: Zhao, Maibach, Jo. wittE, KlinGEr, rowan, Ja. wittE, and PylE—george mason university, Fairfax, Virginia; Gandy—WltX, Columbia, south Carolina; cullEn—Climate Central, Princeton, new Jersey CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Xiaoquan Zhao, department of Communication, Center for Climate Change Communication, george mason university, 4400 university drive, ms 3d6, Fairfax, Va 22030 e-mail: xzha...

An Evidence-Based Public Health Approach to Climate Change Adaptation

BACKGROUND Public health is committed to evidence-based practice, yet there has been minimal discussion of how to apply an evidence-based practice framework to climate change adaptation. OBJECTIVES Our goal was to review the literature on evidence-based public health (EBPH), to determine whether it can be applied to climate change adaptation, and to consider how emphasizing evidence-based pra...

Developing an instrument to measure effective factors on clinical learning

Introduction: Although nursing students spend a large partof their learning period in the clinical environment, clinicallearning has not been perceived by its nature yet. To develop aninstrument to measure effective factors on clinical learning innursing students.Methods: This is a mixed methods study performed in 2 steps.First, the researchers defined “clinical learning” in nursingstudents thr...

VULNERABILITY TO CLIMATE CHANGE A Quantitative Approach

Teaching About Climate Change in Medical Education: An Opportunity

Climate change threatens many of the gains in development and health over the last century. However, it could also be a catalyst for a necessary societal transformation to a sustainable and healthy future. Doctors have a crucial role in climate change mitigation and health system adaptation to prepare for emergent health threats and a carbon-constrained future. This paper argues that climate ch...