The impact of climate change on health
Predicted changes in the world's climate will affect millions of people, particularly the poor, through increases in malnutrition and other diseases. The changes will have implications for:
- child growth and development;
- increased deaths, disease and injury due to heat waves, floods, storms, fires and droughts;
- changes in water-related diseases;
- increased cardio-respiratory diseases from higher concentrations of ground level ozone, and
- alterations in the regions affected by infectious disease carriers such as mosquitos.
Climate change will bring both positive and negative effects, for example malaria may be eradicated from some regions but appear in others. In cooler areas climate changes may result in fewer deaths from cold exposure.
Read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fourth report on the impact of climate change at…
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM6avr07.pdf