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....
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
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...
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Africa, Climate Change and Health: We must act now As climate change progresses it will cause disproportionate impacts on certain regions around the world. This special issue focuses on one of these regions: Africa. This collection of articles provides highlights on issues related to climate dis...
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...
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...
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...
The journal targets all aspects of Human Health from all medical disciplines, from infancy to aging and all organ systems. Moreover, the journal emphasizes issues related to environmental justice and how it relates to Health. Significant goals of The Journal of Climate change and Health are: To...
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...