SCI1300 Lecture 19: SCI1300 LECTURE 19 Human health impacts of climate change
11 Sep 2018
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What climate factors affect human health: heat waves, affect old and young and those with pre-existing illnesses, cold days/nights. Influenza & other respiratory problems: bush fires, direct effects of heat, burns. There may be increased pressures on services for the aged, the chronically ill and those experiencing economic hardship or social disadvantage. This is also important for other potential impacts of warming - for example its impacts on working conditions. Some parts of the world already exceed the international standard for safe work activity during the hottest months of the year. The capacity of the human body to thermoregulate may be exceeded on a regular basis, particularly during manual labour, in parts of the world during this century. In the highest representative concentration pathway, rcp8. 5, by 2100 so(cid:373)e of the (cid:449)orld"s la(cid:374)d area (cid:449)ill (cid:271)e e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)i(cid:374)g (cid:1008)-7 degree higher temperatures due to anthropogenic climate change.
