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Climate Change Affects Public Health
Public Health Problems caused by Climate Change
Overall, climate change affects public health. FACT. Climate change is projected to increase stress levels and threats to human health. Those particularly affected would be the lower income populations. These would be predominantly within tropical/subtropical countries.
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Climate change affects public health directly in the following ways:
- impacts of thermal stress ~ death/injury in floods and storms
- changes in the ranges of disease vectors like mosquitoes
- water-borne pathogens
- water quality
- air quality
- food availability and quality
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Broadly, a change in climatic conditions can have the following kinds of health impacts:
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- Temperature-related illnesses and death
- Stress-related illnesses and corresponding health problems including heart disease, cancer and death
- Extreme weather-related health effects
- Air-pollution related health effects
- Food and water contamination leading to related diseases
- Vector-borne and rodent-borne diseases
- Effects of food and water shortages
- Mental, nutritional, infections, diseases and other health effects
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Climate Change Affects Public Health and none of us is immune, whether we claim we are innocent bystanders or not, and point the fingers at the obvious pepertrators. WE ARE ALL INVOLVED! So let’s all work together as one to prevent climate change.
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Infographic by University of Southern California
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