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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 ...
The health effects of climate change are increasingly a matter of concern for the international public health policy community. In 2009, a publication in the general medical journal The Lancet stated that "Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century". The World Health Organization reiterated this in 2015.
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. [12] The World Health Organization (WHO) calls climate change the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century. [13]
Both crises are global in nature, and both disproportionately affect the most vulnerable communities of color. In the United States alone, COVID-19 hit Black communities the hardest. “The COVID ...
e. Global health is the health of the populations in the worldwide context; [1] it has been defined as "the area of study, research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide". [2] Problems that transcend national borders or have a global political and economic impact are ...
Eat vitamin-rich foods. A 2019 study shows the importance of vitamin E and vitamin C in skin health, especially in protecting against UV radiation. Exposure to UV radiation depletes vitamin E and ...
An additional aspect to consider is the detrimental impact climate change can have on green or blue natural spaces, which in themselves have been proven to have beneficial impact on mental health. [161] [162] Impacts of anthropogenic climate change, such as freshwater pollution or deforestation , degrade these landscapes and reduce public ...
The emotional responses to the threat of climate change can include eco-anxiety, ecological grief and eco-anger. [8] [9] Such emotions can be rational responses to the degradation of the natural world and lead to adaptive action. [10] Assessing the exact mental health effects of climate change is difficult; increases in heat extremes pose risks ...
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