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In partnership with The Nature Conservancy, Healthline is awarding four $5,000 scholarships to students working at the intersection of health and climate change. The deadline for this scholarship ...
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.
However, climate change is likely to affect the health of the most vulnerable in high income countries as well. “These conditions can create or intensify exposures to hazards that impact human health, like extreme heat, poor air quality, reduced food and water quality, and displacement of populations of people,” she tells Medical News Today.
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. The World Health Organization (WHO) calls climate change the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century.
Climate change/Intro. Surface air temperature change over the past 50 years. [1] In common usage, climate change describes global warming —the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to Earth's climate.
Climate change is an overarching threat that touches on all of these things — those who are disadvantaged are at greater risk of suffering most from its negative effects. This is acutely true ...
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 ...
Examples of the effects of climate change on agriculture: 2019 flooding of Toki River caused by Typhoon Hagibis, which was exacerbated by climate change; increase in global leaf area primarily caused by the CO2 fertilization effect; 2020–2023 Horn of Africa drought, the worst drought on record and made worse due to the effects of climate change on the water cycle; maize plant in Brazil ...