The potential impacts of climate change on human health are significant, ranging from direct effects such as heat stress and flooding, to indirect influences including changes in disease transmission and malnutrition in response to increased competition for crop and water resources. Development agencies ...
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One of the most significant impacts of climate change on human health is the increased risk of infectious diseases. As temperatures rise, disease-carrying insects like mosquitoes and ticks thrive, increasing the spread of diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, and Lyme disease. Moreover, extreme...
our focused examination of acute and community contexts allows for a comprehensive understanding of the immediate impacts on healthcare workers. By identifying the specific challenges faced in these environments, this study seeks to inform policy development aimed at enhancing the resilience of health sys...
As this increase could lead to overburdening of health-care systems, action is crucial to minimize the negative impacts of climate change on kidney health. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution Relevant articles Open Access articles citing this article. Consensus ...
—Climate change contributes to water/food insecurity, economic instability and other issues that cause stress, anxiety and depression. People across the U.S. and the world are already experiencing negative impacts of climate change. For example, the U.S. West Coast has faced ...
C The impacts of climate change on people's health around the world, including deaths due to heatwaves and the consequences of food insecurity, are at their "most worrying" since an international initiative began tracking them five years ago.All 16 indicators of the health impacts of a warming...
8 The climate impacts on health are receiving more cross-governmental attention, and health is increasingly an agenda item at high-level climate meetings.9Similarly, recent infectious-disease outbreaks, including COVID-19 and Mpox,10 have drawn global attention to the pressing need for greater ...
This Series review aims to summarize the existing scientific evidence on observed impacts and future projections of climate change impacts on health in Japan and introduce climate change adaptation strategies and measures implemented in the country to enhance resilience. Japan country profile Climate and ...
All of these are relevant for human health. Incorporating impacts on health in this stocktake will help make the human impacts of our collective inaction visible. It would also show that the health benefits of greener economies outweigh the cost of acting at the scale and pace necessary to ave...