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Malnutrition is the world's worst child health crisis and climate change will only make things more severe, according to Microsoft-co-founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates. Between now and 2050 ...
Changes in climate can cause decreasing yields for some crops and regions, resulting in higher food prices, food insecurity, and undernutrition. Climate change can also reduce water security. These factors together can lead to increasing poverty, human migration, violent conflict, and mental health issues. [7][8][3]
This was particularly true with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic, [2] but also included suppressing research on climate change and weakening or eliminating environmental regulations. [3] Trump and his appointees pressured federal health and science agencies to take particular actions that Trump favored and to support his public pronouncements.
Infectious diseases whose transmission is impacted by climate change include, for example, vector-borne diseases like dengue fever, malaria, tick-borne diseases, leishmaniasis, zika fever, chikungunya and Ebola. One mechanism contributing to increased disease transmission is that climate change is altering the geographic range and seasonality ...
Climate change can impact air quality, which may affect mental health, too. Sandstorms, windblown dust from droughts, and wildfire smoke add to the unhealthy soup of pollutants we breathe in ...
Website. www.hhs.gov. The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a cabinet-level executive branch department of the U.S. federal government created to protect the health of the U.S. people and providing essential human services. Its motto is "Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America". [3]
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) conducts research into the effects of the environment on human disease, as one of the 27 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is located in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, and is the only primary division of the NIH located outside of ...
[163] [164] Due to rising hospitalizations from the effects of climate change on human health (like heat stress and cardiorespiratory fitness impacts from wildfire smoke), [165] [166] [167] health insurance companies in the United States are beginning to develop models for their policies related to climate risk. [168] Health policy analysis ...