Commentary Open Access
Nursing at the heart of global climate action and policy: A critical commentary
Ebenezer Akore Yeboah1,*, Rosie Kneafsey2, Rosemary Mensah3
- 1Birmingham Newman University, School of Nursing and Allied Health, Genners Lane, Bartley Green Birmingham, West Midlands, B32 3NT, UK
- 2Coventry University, UK
- 3University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, UK
Corresponding Author
Ebenezer Akore Yeboah, e.akoreyeboah@staff.newman.ac.uk
Received Date: June 11, 2026
Accepted Date: July 28, 2026
Yeboah EA, Kneafsey R, Mensah R. Nursing at the heart of global climate action and policy: A critical commentary. Arch Nurs Healthc. 2026;4(1):13-16.
Copyright: © 2026 Yeboah EA, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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