Climate change and human health

Climate neuter and gentle wellnessIntroductionThe negative impacts of temper transfer be numerous and wide ranging. provided none are as disturbing as those that pose a serious threat to human health (Smith et al., 2001). More everyplace, these negative impacts are extremely complex in nature.Climate change can pretend human health in several different commissions (Haines Patz, 2004). With a 0.8% rise in the primer surface temperature over the past 30 years ( Solomon et al., 2007) and a further expected increase of 1.1- 6.4 degrees over the next 100 years, climate change would result in volatile global temperatures, fluctuations in the worlds rainfall level, extreme droughts and severe floods all effecting human health adversely (Haines et al., 2005). The effectuate can be either direct in the form of a life threatening situation or indirect ones, with insalubrious consequences for biodiversity integral to human life existence.In addition, climate change can potential ly influence the part and quantity of disease carrying species thereby affecting the pathogens that carry those diseases (Bosello et al., 2006). According to WHO the fluctuations in global temperatures and rainfall rich person resulted in the deaths of around 150,000 people (Campbell-Lendrum et al., 2003). Furthermore, by 2030 the risk to human health from climate change allow almost double (WHO, 2002)Main Threats to Human Health disturbing system WavesThe rise in temperature predicted in future tense is most likely to ride more severe and prolonged heat waves (Hulme et al., 2002). Increased temperatures usually mavin to cardiovascular, cerebral vascular and respiratory diseases, especially in the elderly with high mortality rates (Haines et al., 2006). Heat waves are particularly dangerous for urban areas due to the urban heat effect often resulting in higher temperatures than less move rural areas. In the absence of a co-ordinate effort, the threat of a heat wave is all th e more real. In 2003 several thousand people died due to heat wave across Europe (Johnson et al., 2005 IVS, 2003). Severe heat can also channel to increase in humidity with negative implications for human health (Haines et al., 2006).Floods DroughtsAs the frequency and severity of floods and droughts increase, so do their withering impacts on human health, in a direct and an indirect way. Human life can be threatened or even lost as a result of fill or combat injury caused due to it. There are long term negative impacts on the victims mental state associated with inundate (French et al., 1983). Moreover, flooding can cause the release of toxic chemicals thereby constituting a health hazard (Albering et al., 1993-94). inundate often leaves behind a legacy of diarrhoeal and diseases related to respiration especially in crowded regions. Mental illness like anxiety can creep in after the damages of flooding in a population (Haines et al., 2006).Droughts can lead to infectious dis eases, extreme dry conditions which are passing conducive to forest fires and severe food shortages leading to low nutrition (Bouma et al., 1997).Malaria Infectious DiseasesInfectious diseases are mostly caused by agents normally in the form of insects. These insects are naked as a jaybird to slight temperature variations. With the increase in temperature due to climate change, there is a likelihood that the population of these carrier agents would increase. Temperature isnt the only variable moved(p) by climate change that helps such disease carriers. Factors like humidity, sea level rise, soil moisture and alteration in rain forest can positively affect the numbers of these insects. This can lead to an increase in the overall incident rate as well as an increase in the duration of the transmission season (Kovats, 2003).Addressing the IssuePolicy making with regard to assessing the impacts of climate change on human health needs to lead two basic notions vulnerability in futu re as well as the cost in terms of resources needed to implement the strategies in order to burn or mitigate the effect of climate change on human health (Ebi, 2008). Successful policies should be able to address the following basic issues select the most climate sensitive health problems, the kind between climate change and current health patterns, strategies available to help address the issue of climate change in terms of its costs on human health, and how can we successfully implement the health related climate change strategies (Ebi, 2008).ConclusionThe issue of climate change carries enormous significance with regard as to its impacts on human health. Several studies indicate a clear linkage between the climate change and its negative effects on human health. Climate change negatively influence human health in numerous ways with severe repercussions. lurchs in the different variables associated with climate change help levy the conditions harmful to human health. Policy m aking therefore needs to address some of the most sensitive and pressing issues in this regard. 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