Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) identifies climate change as one of the greatest health threats for humanity, with an estimated one in four deaths resulting from "extreme weather events heatwaves, storms and floods." Severe acclimate weather creates "dis...
为了强调气候变化影响人类健康的紧迫性,引起人们对气候变化与健康主题的关注,第28次全球气候变化大会(COP28)主席国阿联酋、世界卫生组织(WHO),以及威康基金会(Wellcome Trust)等在2023年11月30日至12月12日在阿联酋迪拜举行的COP28上主办了首个“健康日”(He...
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...
Source: https://www.weforum.org/publications/quantifying-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-human-health/ (根据原文翻译) 尽管气候变化影响人们健康的科学事实已得到科学家们的广泛认同,但政策制定者对气候灾害的认识还较为滞后,缺乏应对健康危机的准备和行动,而且应对气候灾害需要合作,但相关的合作和对话还较少。
According to WHO Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity (WHO2018b). As a result of global climate change, people in many regions of the globe are increasingly falling ill and even dying as a result of the...
Climate Change and Health FullText There’s no shortage these days of sobering climate statistics. The 10 warmest years on record haveall occurred since 2010, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This year’sJuneandJulywere the hottest of these months on ...
To that end, notes WHO, its toolkit aims to help health professionals effectively communicate about climate change and health. WHO reported that the toolkit aims to fill the gaps in knowledge and action among health and care workers – all those who are engaged in actions with the pr...
(HealthDay)—Climate change is the "single biggest health threat facing humanity," and governments must "act with urgency" to tackle the crisis, a World Health Organization special report warns.
Climate change has been identified as one of the biggest threats to human health. Despite this claim, there are no standardized tools that assess the rigor of published literature for use in weight of evidence (WOE) reviews. Standardized assessment tools are essential for creating clear and compar...
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...