The Effect of Climate Change on Health and Poverty

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  • Ishrat Batool Professor Community Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College
  • Aditi Chauhan
  • Nandini Sharma
  • Samvedna Yadav

Klíčová slova:

population, environmental factors, social, economic factors.

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This study focuses on the effect of climate on the health of people below poverty line in the country. India considers 55% of total population that is around 645 million people below poverty line according to UN reports 41 % rural and 23 % urban women in India are undernourished basic reason behind this is inflation in the food prices that is a result of climate change, there are 2.4 million under five annual deaths majority of them are due to respiratory infections and 50 % of these are due to malnutrition which is basically an effect of climate. Around 39% of deaths in the age 30-59 are due to respiratory and communicable disease in India. According to WHO 2 million people die due to air pollution in the country and this is the core reason of the world suffering thorough climate change, & India is the worst in air pollution in the entire world according to a study. The reason of giving these information is that these three aspects of life are inter related with each other poverty to the people brings enormous health conditions and these conditions to them are bought by the environment & majorly by climate change, majority of the communicable & non-communicable diseases are spread due to air, water as various health conditions are spread due to malnutrition & these three in totality are based on the climate. So there is a need to focus on these aspects for a healthy society and this study will touch various aspects which can be improved and changed to reach the desired goal. Keywords: Population, environmental factors, social, economic factors.

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2013-01-21

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