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Climate change is altering the geographic range and seasonality of some insects that can carry diseases, for example Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that is the vector for dengue transmission. Global climate change has increased the occurrence of some infectious diseases. Infectious diseases whose transmission is impacted by climate change include, for example, vector-borne diseases like dengue ...
Climate change threatens people with increased flooding, extreme heat, increased food and water scarcity, more disease, and economic loss. Human migration and conflict can also be a result. [13] The World Health Organization calls climate change one of the biggest threats to global health in the 21st century. [14]
The Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) is an organisation, whose members are health professionals and institutes from around the world, with the purpose of tackling climate change to protect and promote public health. It was formed in 2011 in Durban and by 2015 had admitted over 1,700 health organisations and 8,200 hospitals and health ...
Climate change and conflict risk overshadowing efforts to improve people's health, when in reality the issues overlap, Peter Sands, head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria ...
Scientists predicted how climate hazards will worsen in nearly 1,000 major cities by 2100. Heat waves, energy demand, and mosquito-borne diseases will spike as global temperatures rise.
Global warming and climate change affect not only the environment but patient health as well. There is evidence that the association between air pollution, climate change, and lung cancer is ...
Climate change is a serious health threat for everyone but especially for communities that are already vulnerable. Geographic proximity to polluting facilities, for example, is a way in which ...
Some climate change effects: wildfire caused by heat and dryness, bleached coral caused by ocean acidification and heating, environmental migration caused by desertification, and coastal flooding caused by storms and sea level rise. Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies. Changes to the climate system include an overall ...
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