Question

Identify a cultural or economic or a social factor that impacts a specific population in a global community and discuss an initiative that has been implemented to address the identified factor.

Answer 1

Climatic change is one of the social factors that affect vulnerable areas of the population such as coastal areas, immigrant people, people in poverty, older adult, drought areas. These populations face a greater challenge with health hazards due to different climatic conditions. Climatic change is a global health threat which leads to the health problems of asthma, gastrointestinal illness, vector-borne diseases, etc. This increases the health burden worldwide which impacts on the healthier population too.

Nurses have to play a vital role in response to the health hazards related to climatic change. Nurses have to reduce the effect by maintaining effective communication with the patient and proper assessment of the community people. The nurse has to involve the local leaders in the prevention of health hazards and effective use of health resources. Nurses have to make effective policies in order to reduce adverse effects on health due to climatic change.