Impact of Climate Change on Human Health Particularly Disease Epidemiology and Preventive Measure

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  • Seema Mumtaz Professor Community Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College
  • Nandini Puri

Parole chiave:

External factors, Non-communicable diseases, climate change, preventive measures

Abstract

Human health can be affected by mammoth external factors. Therefore, it is important to comprehend the role of climate change on human health. With rising temperature of earth surface, incidence of heat waves, droughts, floods and storms have been being taking place. This is contributing to a major chunk of diseases in the form of Communicable and Non-Communicable diseases. The current climate change related health issues in the form of Communicable diseases including water and food born diseases (such as Cholera and Diarrheal diseases) associated with extreme weather events (heat waves, storms, floods and droughts), vector borne diseases (such as Dengue or Malaria), respiratory diseases due to air pollution, air borne allergen-related problem . Climate change is fraught with growing burden of non-communicable disease and hence influencing human health. There are various determinants which form the pathways in order to influence the prevalence of non-communicable diseases with climate change.Keywords: External factors, Non-communicable diseases, climate change, preventive measures

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2013-01-21

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Review Articles