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Mar 26 2020
Impact of Climate Change on Human Health
Abstract
Global population would be influenced through climate change in multifaceted ways during the coming years, however few communities would be more susceptible as compared to others. Moreover, few social groups (such as children and elderly, unemployed) are too chiefly vulnerable because of their low-income, minority participation or ethnicity, poor housing settings, adverse socio-cultural situation and deprived quality of life. Further, taking the above discussion into consideration this particular paper attempts to provide an overview of the impact of climate change upon human health.
Contents
Introduction 4
Potential impacts of global climate change on human health 4
Conclusion 6
References: 8
Introduction
To start with, the phenomenon of worldwide climate change is associated with human health and intensifies the occu
ence of non-communicable as well as infectious illnesses (Mboera et. al., 2011). Global population would be influenced through climate change in multifaceted ways during the coming years, however few communities would be more susceptible as compared to others (Canadian Institute of Actuaries, 2015). Moreover, few social groups (such as children and elderly, unemployed) are too chiefly vulnerable because of their low-income, minority participation or ethnicity, poor housing settings, adverse socio-cultural situation and deprived quality of life (Uzzoli, 2016).
Worldwide climate change, principally an outcome of ozone layer reduction, result from human practices, which discharge greenhouse gases, which trap heat in the environment. Such human practices take in augmented usage of fossil fuel, change in land use and lastly, agriculture (Mboera et. al., 2011). A rise in greenhouse gases results in augmented warming of the environment as well as the Earth’s surface. As the presence of such gases within the atmosphere is continuously rising, climate frameworks anticipate that the average surface temperature would increase by 1.1°C to around 6.4 °C during the coming years, with extremes possibly taking lace beyond this range (Mboera et. al., 2011). Such modifications are expected to have noteworthy effects upon the important factors of human health, most particularly upon the ecosystems and such impacts would be added to the prevailing health problems. Further, taking the above discussion into consideration this particular paper attempts to provide an overview of the impact of climate change upon human health.
Potential impacts of global climate change on human health
Scientific studies throw light upon the fact that extreme weather occu
ences like heat waves as well as large storms are expected to get more regular or stronger with human-persuaded climate change. Fluctuations are also witnessed in precipitation, temperature and sea level. It is highly believed that long-term fluctuations in climate could directly or indirectly influence several areas of the community in possibly disruptive manners (Mboera et. al., 2011). For instance, warmer average temperatures can augment the cost of air conditioning. More extreme changes in weather are also considered as being a threat to the overall society. Additionally, more recu
ent and forceful extreme heat proceedings could perk up illnesses and deaths, particularly amongst vulnerable populace and damage few crops (Mboera et. al., 2011). High storms could damage property, result in loss of life and populace movement and temporarily distu
vital provisions like transportation, energy, telecommunications and water supplies(United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2017).
Moving ahead, the causal connections amid worldwide climate change as well as human health are multifaceted since they are frequently displaced or indirect in time and space, and reliant upon several changing factors (Uzzoli, 2016). There are three fundamental ways through which climate change has an impact upon human health. Firstly, direct impacts relate chiefly with modifications in the occu
ence of extreme weather occu
ences through weather variables taking in heat, storms and drought. Such impacts are basically short-terms. Secondly, indirect impacts are intervened via natural systems, for instance, disease vectors, air pollution and water-borne diseases (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2017). Such impacts are basically medium as well as long-terms. Thirdly, the third pathway effects are greatly facilitated through human systems, for instance, occupational, mental stress and under-nutrition (Canadian Institute of Actuaries, 2015). Environmental circumstances as moderating impacts of local atmosphere (such as geography...