Climate change presents a multifaceted challenge, extending across generations and impacting vulnerable groups, particularly children. Previous studies have quantified children’s heightened climate susceptibility to both disasters and slower-onset climate change. However, many existing measures of children’s ...
climate changeextreme weatherrespiratory diseasewildfiresThis review examines the impact of climate change on the respiratory health of children, with a focus on temperature, humidity, air pollution, and extreme weather events. Climate change is considered the greatest health threat of our time, and ...
The 2019 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change, put together by doctors and researchers, warns that children are particularly vulnerable to climate change, because a warming world exposes them to more infectious diseases, malnutrition and stunted growth, and dirty air t...
We review recent evidence on the psychological effects of climate change on children, covering both direct and indirect impacts, and discuss children’
Children Are Particularly Vulnerable to the Effects of Climate Change Children are not like little adults. Their bodies and minds are uniquely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change such as pollution, deadly diseases and extreme weather. ...
Pediatricians participating in the all-volunteer initiative told STAT that the impact on children is clear, and will become more serious.
Raging wildfires, droughts, floods and record-breaking heat brought on by climate change are taking a toll on kids' already fragile mental health.
To date, little attention has been paid to how children and adolescents may be uniquely predisposed to climate anxiety, despite being an age cohort particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. This Review uses a social–ecological framework to identify the influences on climate anxiety ...
Children are usually perceived as the age group that is the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. This paper examined the effects of climate-change-related diseases on children's health in the Abuja Municipal Area Council, the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria. Systematic rando...
Climate change poses a particular threat to children and youth, starting before birth and potentially influencing the normal development of physiological systems and emotional skills in ways that are sometimes irreversible (无法逆转的), according to a report released by the American Psychological Associati...