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Impact of Climate Change on Health and Well-Being of People in Hindu Kush Himalayan Region: A Narrative Review

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Dhimal, Meghnath, Bhandari, Dinesh, Dhimal, Mandira Lamichhane, Kafle, Naviya, Pyakurel, Prajjwal, Mahotra, Narayan, Akhtar, Saeed, Ismail, Tariq +4 more·2021·Frontiers in Physiology
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Climate change and variability affect virtually everyone and every region of the world but the effects are nowhere more prominent than in mountain regions and people living therein. The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is a vast expanse encompassing 18% of the world’s mountainous area. Sprawling over 4.3 million km 2 , the HKH region occupies areas of eight countries namely Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar, and Pakistan. The HKH region is warming at a rate higher than the global average and precipitation has also increased significantly over the last 6 decades along with increased frequency and intensity of some extreme events. Changes in temperature and precipitation have affected and will like to affect the climate-dependent sectors such as hydrology, agriculture, biodiversity, and human health. This paper aims to document how climate change has impacted and will impact, health and well-being of the people in the HKH region and offers adaptation and mitigation measures to reduce the impacts of climate change on health and well-being of the people. In the HKH region, climate change boosts infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), malnutrition, and injuries. Hence, climate change adaptation and mitigation measures are needed urgently to safeguard vulnerable populations residing in the HKH region.

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Dhimal, M., Bhandari, D., Dhimal, M. L., Kafle, N., Pyakurel, P., Mahotra, N., Akhtar, S., Ismail, T., Dhiman, R. C., Groneberg, D. A., Shrestha, U. B., & Müller, R.
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  • The University of Adelaide (AU)
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  • Tribhuvan University (NP)
  • Bahauddin Zakariya University (PK)
  • National Institute of Malaria Research (IN)
  • Goethe University Frankfurt (DE)
  • Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde (BE)
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  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Publication Server of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Goethe University Frankfurt) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
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 › Public Health and Environmental Issues
Keywords
health impacts of climate change, Hindu Kush Himalayan region, mountain communities, well-being, infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, malnutrition, injuries, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, extreme weather events, temperature and precipitation change, vulnerable populations

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Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

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