How AccuWeather Data is Transforming Children's Health Care

Children's Hospital Los Angeles unlocks powerful insights into environmental impact on children's health with award-winning AccuWeather data.

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00:00In Los Angeles, AccuWeather is partnering with one of the nation's top children's hospitals.

00:06It's an incredible partnership and yet another way AccuWeather is helping to improve people's

00:11health, safety and comfort.

00:14AccuWeather's superior weather and environmental data is providing doctors and researchers

00:19with actionable information and insight they've never had access to before in order to best

00:24care for their patients.

00:26Dr. Jonathan Tan is an anesthesiologist with Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

00:30The hospital provides care to over 100,000 children every year.

00:34We know the climate's changing and we know through really great science that environmental

00:38exposures really impacts health.

00:40CHLA researchers are now using weather, air quality and environmental data from AccuWeather

00:45to determine how exposures to hazards like air pollution, wildfire smoke and extreme

00:50heat can affect children.

00:52Starting from just a few thousand kids, we did some great studies and now we're at the

00:56point of being able to provide air quality data to almost all the children at the Children's

01:01Hospital of Los Angeles.

01:02By using basic information, including where a patient lives or goes to school, the hospital

01:07can identify health disparities and find ways to reduce the impact of environmental exposures

01:11on children through treatment, medication and resources.

01:15On poor air quality days, we should alert our families as health care professionals

01:20that maybe we don't play outside that day, maybe we find indoor activities, maybe we

01:24find indoor activities that don't cost a lot of money for certain families.

01:28AccuWeather's superior data and unique expertise can particularly help children in California

01:33where many families are breathing in unhealthy air.

01:36Dr. Tan says AccuWeather's data will help the hospital raise money, build research and

01:40education programs and advocate for improved government policies on clean air.

01:45It can make a huge difference.

01:47Prevention is everything.

01:48It's all about heading things off.

01:50We're really great at treating diseases, but we want to be really great at prevention.

01:54Prevention starts with education, it starts with communication and it starts with heading

01:59off all the diseases that develop after years of exposure.

02:03AccuWeather hopes to expand this work in the future.

02:06While the next generation is going to face even bigger challenges from air quality, extreme

02:11weather and climate change, here at AccuWeather we're proud to help doctors and researchers

02:16in this big step to revolutionize and improve health care for children.

02:20Saving lives, helping people best optimize their health, safety and comfort, that's part

02:25of our DNA here at AccuWeather.

02:28For AccuWeather, I'm Ariella Scalise.