”Air quality and health“(空气质量及健康)、”Alcohol, Drugs and Addictive Behaviours Unit“(酒精、成瘾性药物及行为项目组)、“Climate Change and Health”(气候变化及健康)、“Global HIV Programme”(全球艾滋病项目)、“No Tobacco”(拒绝烟草)、“Noncommunicable Diseases...
Climate change may worsen health crises: WHOBy Laura MacInnis
which can spread globally and threaten our health. Controlling pollution from antibiotic production contributes to keeping these life-saving medicines effective for everyone," said Dr Yukiko Nakatani, WHO Assistant Director-General for AMR ad interim. ...
In September,WHO tightened its global air quality guidelinesin its first revision since 2005. The organization said air pollution is one of the "biggest environmental threats to human health." The findings come ahead of the U.N.'s major international conference on climate change, known as COP26...
Global environmental and social changes, including climate change, exacerbate many of these risks, it added. Despite the growing evidence of the effect of environmental risk factors on health, political action and investments remain largely insufficient: only about 3 percent of health resources are inv...
health impacts of climate change, he repeatedly asked whether we understood the profound significance of climate change for global health.2 Were we to ask that question today, as we should, the answer would be: We do, but we are failing to act quickly enough or at sufficient scale.3 One ...
The report notes that without substantial investment in efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and climate-change-related adaptation measures, human health will suffer adverse consequences. New tools: Innovative anti-malaria solutions emerge, but development and rollout need to be stepped up ...
Both the WHOreportand theopen letteroutline major climate issues already affectingpublic health. They include: air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels that causes climate change; more intense heat waves, floods, and storms; extreme weather worseningfood insecurityand hunger; and rising sea lev...
cause "some" or "a lot" of harm to their health. Respondents also showed 73% higher odds of being interested in cancer screening when they felt that climate change posed "some" risk to their health and 84% higher odds when they perceived that climate change could harm their health "a ...
While the hard science on climate change is unravelling fast, there's growing evidence that dire warnings of mass death from climate change are also untrue. Population scientist Peter Curson reviews the links between climate and health.(ESSAY)...