What are the most common impacts of climate change on human health?

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Behrouz Ahmadi-Nedushan Popular answer

Weather and climate play a significant role in people's health. Changes in climate affect the average weather conditions that we are accustomed to. Warmer average temperatures will likely lead to hotter days and more frequent and longer heat waves.

This could increase the number of heat-related illnesses and deaths.

Increases in the frequency or severity of extreme weather events such as storms could increase the risk of dangerous flooding, high winds, and other direct threats to people and property.

Warmer temperatures could increase the concentrations of unhealthy air and water pollutants.

Changes in temperature, precipitation patterns, and extreme events could enhance the spread of some diseases.

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/impacts-adaptation/health.html

Golam Kibria

Some examples on possible/projected impacts of climate change on human health

increases in heat related deaths and illness across the globe including Australia, Germany, Portugal, UK, and USA;

malaria zone may expand in Australia, Africa (highlands), India and 260-320 million more people will be affected by malaria by 2080;

dengue area is likely to increase as climate would be more suitable and by 2085, about 6 billion people will be at risk of contracting dengue fever including Australia and New Zealand;

diarrhoeal disease may increase with temperature increase;

cholera outbreaks may rise as a result of more plankton blooms proving nutrients for Vibrio cholerae.

Behrouz Ahmadi-Nedushan

Shimelis Setegn

Thank you for the wonderful explantaion you made on the possible impact of climate change. I do agree with both the previous responsents. I do witnessed specially in sub saharan africa changes in weather vairables caouses spead of some diseases. Malaria also depend upon the cliamte variability.

Asmat Ali

I agree with @Golam Kibria and @Behrouz Ahmadi-Nedushan. I see quite useful link provided by @Behrouz Ahmadi-Nedushan. Thanks for finding and sharing the links.

Jalil Zorriehzahra

In aquatic animal population this matter was approved because global temperature increment could be considered as main reason of ocean acidification. So occurrence of some new emerging and remerging diseases were increased in aquatic animals.

Recently some epizootic diseases such as Viral Nervous Necrosis (VNN) could be introduced as typical sample of climate changes effects on marine fishes in current decade.

Hamit Can

http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/42749/1/9241590815.pdf

Arvind Singh

@ Dr. Shimelis Setegn

The most common impacts of climate change on human health includes heat-related disorders, vector borne diseases and waterborne diseases, respiratory disorders, and mental health disorders. Please have a look at the following RG links for more details.

Book Climate Change and Global Health

Article Effect of climate change on human health and some adaptive s...

Article Climate Change and Vector-Borne Diseases

Article Climate Change and Water-Related Infectious Diseases

Article Climate change and mental health: A causal pathways framework

Article Climate Change and the Impact on Respiratory and Allergic Di...

Article Effects on asthma and respiratory allergy of Climate change ...

Article Effects of Heat Stress on Working Populations when Facing Cl...

Thanks!