Climate Change: A Threat to Human Health

CLIMATE CHANGE:

Prepared by:

Nikki Rose D. DapanasBSES-IV

A THREAT TO HUMAN

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Crosscutting Issues…

A BOY SLEEPS ON A DRIED-UP RIVER BED IN INDIA.

This photo by Nimia Chandra won a special mention in WHO photo contest images of Health and Environment.


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FACT 1

• Over the last 50 years, human activities have released sufficient quantities of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to affect the global climate.


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• From the tropics to the arctic, climate andweather have powerful direct and indirectimpacts on human life.

• Weather extremes – such as heavy rains,floods and disasters endanger health as wellas destroy property and livelihoods.

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Intense fluctuations in temperature can also seriously affect human health.

Causing heat stress (hyperthermia) or extreme cold (hypothermia), leading to increased death rates from heart and respiratory diseases.

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• Increasing global temperatures affect levels and seasonal patterns of both man-made and natural air-borne particles which can trigger asthma.

• About 300 million people suffer from asthma, and 255 000 people died of the disease in 2005.

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FACT 5•Rising Sea Levels

•Coastal Flooding and lost of

Human Life

•Population Displacement

•Risk Conflict


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• Variable rainfall patterns are likely to compromise the supply of fresh water.

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• Increases the risk of diarrhea, which

kills approximately 1.8 million people

every year, as well as trachoma and

other illnesses.

• Lack of water and poor water quality

compromise hygiene and health.


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• Climatic conditions affect diseases transmitted through water, and via vectors such as mosquitoes.

• Climate-sensitive diseases are among the largest global killers.

• Diarrhea, malaria and protein-energy malnutrition alone caused more than 3 M deaths globally in 2002, with over 1/3 of these deaths occuring in Africa.

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Female Aedes aegypti mosquito, during blood meal. A vector

of dengue and other viral diseases, and highly sensitive to

climate conditions.

• Malnutrition causes millions of deaths each year, from both a lack of sufficient nutrients to sustain life and a resulting vulnerability to infectious diseases such as malaria diarrhea, and respiratory illnesses.

• Impact of climate change is projected to approximately double by 2050s at risk of hunger and associated health effects.

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Climate Change…

•“Health is one of the most affected areas by climate change”…

…and it is being affected now

•Indirect and direct impacts…


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• middle-income country • nations most in danger facing

frequent & more intense storms

Climate Change in Philippines…

•In 2008, 1 of 3 countries hit by the most disasters,

according to the Brussels-based Centre

for Research on the Epidemiology of

Disasters.


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The Philippine Scenario...

• More, severe typhoons or tropicalstorms


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Villagers and rescue workers begin the clean-up operation in Tacloban, Philippines, after the typhoon and storm surge in

November 2013. Photograph: Rolex dela Pena/EPA


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3 Rs...

• Reduce: what you do need

• Reuse: what you can't reduce

• Recycle: what you can't reuse


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What Govt. & Policy Makers Should Do…

Make national and international commitments

Assess information on climate change and health

Ensure budgets for environment, health and other sectors

Raise awareness among all sectors of the health impact of climate change


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What Education SectorShould Do…

Provide IEC Materials..

1. Information

2. Education

3. Communication


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What general public should do …

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Learn, Share & Act

Protect yourself and your family

Watch out for your activities

Advocate for healthier and

fairer climate change

policies.

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Climate Change is a REALITY.Human activities are a MAJOR

CAUSE.Human activities can also be the

SOLUTION.We must ACT now, together, to find ways to safeguard HUMAN

HEALTH.All our efforts will CONTRIBUTE.

2015/1/6

We are all part of

the SOLUTION.Not of thePROBLEM.


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References...•Samer Ahmed. 2008. Protecting Health from Climate Change. WHO. India. Issue # 803•Gamel, J. et al. 2013. Climate Change. Environmental Health.Manila,Philippines. CERP21•Sheffield, P. 2011. Human

Health Under A Changing Climate. Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Hudson Valley.

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