The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health: An Alarming Fact »

Abstract

In recent years, climate change has impacted on health in many ways, including deaths and illness from increasingly frequent extreme weather events such as heat waves, storms and floods, disruption of food systems, increases in zoonoses, food-borne, water-borne and vector-borne diseases, and mental health problems. The aim of this work is to shed light on climate change, its impacts and consequences on human health. In addition, current climate change compromises many of the social determinants of good human health, such as livelihoods equality and access to healthcare and social support structures, and so on.