Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Research & information: general; 2003; 2015; adaptation; aerosolized exposures; air temperature; ambulance 999 calls; beta distribution; cholera; city; climate adaptation; climate change; climate scenarios; climate-sensitive disease; climatic variability; cold days; cold waves; cryptosporidiosis; demographic change; disaster risk reduction; dwellings; El Niño Southern Oscillation; emergency ambulance calls; ENSO; exacerbation of essential hypertension; extreme weather; Germany; health; health infrastructure; health systems; heat; heat resilience; heat stress; heat waves; heat-related mortality; heat-waves; hot days; indoor temperature; infectious diseases; land management; land-use; Legionnaires' disease; leptospirosis; London; mortality; n/a; natural environment; North Atlantic Oscillation; Northern Europe; patient and public involvement (PPI); Poland; pollen; Poznań; productivity loss; public health; rescue services; resource planning; risks; Sendai Framework; trends over time; UK; urban area types; urban heat island; urban planning; vector-borne diseases; waterborne disease; weather; well-being; workplace
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication

 Climate change poses a serious challenge to our health and wellbeing. The increasing frequency of extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, and heatwaves, and the direct impacts of changes in temperature have direct impacts on health. At the same time, broader environmental change affects infectious disease risk, air pollution, and other forms of exposure. The different ways in which climate change will affect health are complex, interactive, and different communities are disproportionately affected. International actions such as the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals recognise the future risks to society and acknowledge that we are already committed to a certain level of climate change. Future adaptation measures therefore need careful assessment and implementation for us to be able to minimise the potential risks from climate change and, at the same time, maximise the potential health benefits of a cleaner, greener world. This Special Issue comprises original research articles and detailed reviews on the likely impacts of climate change on health in a range of geographical settings, and the potential for adaptation measures to reduce some of these risks. Ultimately, studies like these will motivate policy level action for mitigation and help in determining the most effective methods of adaptation to reduce negative impacts in future through embedding scientific evidence into practice.