Climate Change Is A Health Problem

Climate change is already damaging human health and it will cause even more damage in the future. The Lancet has described it as a “biggest global health threat of the 21st century”. deliberate climate effects, such as spread of vector borne disease, rising heat, drought, intense storms and mass disposions of climate refugees, adverse effects, which adversely affect the weakest and marginalized persons and their intensity is worse with time.

All countries will have significant and increasing effects on global warming health. Low and medium -income countries will have the most impact and are the most sensitive to climate change and are the least equipped to react with poor health structures and weak health systems. Climate change can push over 100 million people into excessive poverty by 2030, most of which may return due to negative health effects.

According to the report by the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate, “the decrease in emissions and the failure to progress in adaptive capacity builds” not only “endarow the viability of human life and health system, on which they depend on”, but “significant public health has the ability to weaken infrastructure and affect health services.” Hospitals, health clinics and public health professional are among the first to react to the health effects of climate change. Due to the increasing frequency of acute climate phenomena, the health system and hospitals will automatically bear significant costs and they will have to become flexible to the effects of the climate. The world’s worst health systems are often the weakest without resources and equipment to protect themselves.

Also, the major cause of global warming – combustion of fossil fuel – is already causing heavy health results, which is responsible for air pollution that kills more than seven million people ahead of time, which is almost double the number of HIV AIDS, malaria and TB deaths. Air pollution is also a major cause of long -term long -term diseases, which requires hospitalization and treatment, which leads to an increase in health sector expenditure and emissions. It is associated with inequality as more than 80% of untimely deaths caused by non-communicable diseases occur in low and moderate income countries. The most adverse effects and causes of climate change can be avoided, and thus avoiding provides an important opportunity to address health results as well as to increase health equality.

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