HealthMarshall IslandsMigrationClimate change is impacting public health in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). Meanwhile, migration within the RMI and abroad is driven, in part, by access to better healthcare, and migration is also expected to be accelerated by climate change. Based on...
Climate Change and Human Health Climate change is profoundly impacting human health, with direct and indirect effects on physical, mental and social health. Image: Alex Whitworth Collection | 07 November 2023 Air pollution and global solutions Air pollution is a leading environmental risk to publ...
(increasing occurrence of large fires) due to both growing human pressures (through forest clearance) and projected climate change may further result in a huge loss of forest with severe impacts on biodiversity. They might also pose serious public health risks to the human populations in this ...
Rapid environmental change exacerbates health inequalities, especially among vulnerable populations (Parmesan et al.2022; Sorensen and Fried2024). Marginalised communities, low-income countries, and regions with limited health infrastructure are disproportionately affected (Benevolenza and DeRigne2019; Khine a...
Research shows that climate change is impacting health in many ways, including changing infectious disease patterns, increasing extreme weather events and heat and the risk of drought and food insecurity. We have taken sustained, long-term action to reduce our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and ...
Polluted air and steadily rising temperatures are linked to health effects ranging from increased heart attacks and strokes to the spread of infectious diseases and psychological trauma.
In this Q&A, the World Health Organization’s first-ever Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health, Vanessa Kerry, MD, MSc, joins JAMA Medical News Director Jennifer Abbasi to discuss how a changing climate and extreme weather events are impacting human health, what clinicians should expect in...
The recent fires in California are a reminder that climate change poses a significant risk to cardiovascular health. Changes in seasonal temperatures, extreme weather, increases in greenhouse gases and rising sea levels are indicators of planetary health changes that are dramatically impacting cardiovascula...
In the past decades, climate change has been impacting human lives and health via extreme weather and climate events and alterations in labour capacity, food security, and the prevalence and geographical distribution of infectious diseases across the globe. Climate change and health indicators (CCHIs...
Climate change endangers life on every continent, universally exacerbating a host of health conditions and damaging the essential drivers of our overall health and wellness. And the environmental threats to health outcomes and related impacts on other drivers of health (e.g., socioeconomic impacts on...