Climate change is a health emergency, impacting multiple facets of human well-being via direct and indirect pathways.Nature Climate Changeasked experts from different health fields to share their thoughts on the urgent issues and possible paths forward....
ASIA, Climate Change and Health: We must act As climate change progresses it is causing ubiquitous, unrelenting and disproportionate impacts on certain regions around the world. This special issue focuses on one of these regions: Asia. This collection of articles provides highlights on issues re...
Climate change is a health emergency, impacting multiple facets of human well-being via direct and indirect pathways. Nature Climate Change asked experts from different health fields to share their thoughts on the urgent issues and possible paths forward
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The scientific consensus is that global warming is occurring and is largely the result of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. This paper examines the health implications of global warming, the current socio-political attitudes towards action on climate change and highlight the health co-bene...
Climate change can exacerbate health inequity:The changes to the Earth’s climate systems contribute to a host of health issues, commonly: lack of access to clean water, allergens, respiratory diseases, heat-induced illness, and infectious disease.2While climate change does not discriminate, the im...
The climate crisis is a global health emergency, posing ethical dilemmas for policymakers, researchers, and clinicians. The nations least responsible for producing greenhouse gases are also the ones whose populations disproportionately suffer from the impacts of climate change. What ethical issues must be...
These days we talk about climate change mostly in terms of a threat. It represents a set of new risks to our health, our infrastructure, our relatively stable existence. But ages before humans began to adding to that change, the climate system created the perfect conditions for human existence...
Health Risks Climate change isn’t just bad for the planet’s health—it’s bad for people’s too. Effects will vary by age, gender, geography, and socioeconomic status—and so will remedies. A recent international study in the Lancet says that many more people will be exposed to extreme...
Climate change, health, and conflict in Africa’s arc of instability. Perspect Public Health. 2021;141(6):338-341. doi:10.1177/17579139211058299 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 9. Anugwom EE. Reflections on climate change and public health in Africa in an era of global pandemic. ...