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Climate change and human health: Impacts, vulnerability and public health
Abstract
It is now widely accepted that climate change is occurring as a result of the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere arising from the combustion of fossil fuels. Climate change may affect health through a range of pathways, for example as a result of increased frequency and intensity of heat waves, reduction in cold related deaths, increased floods and droughts, changes in the distribution of vector-borne diseases and effects on the risk of disasters and malnutrition. The overall balance of effects on health is likely to be negative and populations in low-income countries are likely to be particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects. The experience of the 2003 heat wave in Europe shows that high-income countries may also be adversely affected. Adaptation to climate change requires public health strategies and improved surveillance. Mitigation of climate change by reducing the use of fossil fuels and increasing a number of uses of the renewable energy technologies should improve health in the near-term by reducing exposure to air pollution.
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“Climate change will increase the range of vector and water-borne diseases, elevating the likelihood that these new environments experience epidemics [324].”
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“Two of the most relevant expected shifts are (1) heat waves will become more frequent and (2) outdoor and indoor air quality will deteriorate [324,710].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Haines, A., Kovats, R. S., Campbell-Lendrum, D., & Corvalan, C.
- Affiliations
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (GB)
- World Health Organization (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Haines, A.
- Venue
- Public Health
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2006-07
- Volume
- 120
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 585-596
- ISSN
- 0033-3506 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1984405714
- Cited by
- 1,041
- References
- 59
- Citations by year
- 2026: 36 · 2025: 79 · 2024: 67 · 2023: 77 · 2022: 84 · 2021: 83 · 2020: 70 · 2019: 87 · 2018: 77 · 2017: 66 · 2016: 71 · 2015: 60 · 2014: 51 · 2013: 22 · 2012: 27
- FWCI
- 10.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Public Health (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate Change and Environmental Impact
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Keywords
- climate change, human health, health impacts of climate change, climate change vulnerability, greenhouse gases, heat waves, cold-related mortality, floods, drought, vector-borne diseases, disaster risk, malnutrition, low-income countries, 2003 European heatwave, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, fossil fuels, renewable energy, air pollution
- MeSH terms
- Atmosphere, Climate, Humans, Public Health, Global Health
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