HLTH 101 Lecture Notes - Dengue Fever, Waterborne Diseases, Cardiovascular Disease
Document Summary
Climate change effects on health will exacerbate inequalities between rich and poor. Need a strategy whereby rich countries rapidly reduce emissions & poor countries increase emissions to improve health and achieve development adverse health outcomes of climate change. Heat waves will cause deaths from respiratory and cardiovascular disease. Spread and transmission of disease (e. g. malaria, dengue fever and cholera) Ecosystem destruction may rise, or decrease disease transmission. Harvests of staple crops will lower as temperature rises. Agricultural productivity may rise in high latitude countries. Hunger and malnutrition will rise as climate change affects crops, forestry, livestock, fisheries, Flooding from sea waters, rough, changing patterns of disease, decreasing animal production, Decreasing crop yields, decreasing first productivity, changes in aquatic populations. Changing rainfall and temperature; clean water, good sanitation and drainage become more complicated. Average rainfall will decrease in some regions, increase in others. Glacial melting; great decrease in water availability. Decrease river flow and increase of temperature will lower water quality.
