ENVS 2270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Indoor Air Quality, West Nile Fever

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Vectorbone disease (malaria, west nile virus, etc. ) Heat related illness (heat stroke and heat related death) Mental health (links to depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, etc. ) Emerging infectious diseases causal diagram - a way to help us understand complex relationships use visual cues to describe a relationship and can imply directionality. Gender gender roles on allocation of resources females usually more at risk. Extreme weather events kill 60,000 some of the largest disease burdens are climate sensitive. Water quality and quantity contributing to a doubling of people living in water stressed basins by 2050. Food security - yields from rain-fed agriculture may halve by 2020 in some areas. Control of infectious diseases - increasing population at risk of malaria in africa by 170m in. 2030, and risk of dengue by 2 billion by 2080. Climate change is the biggest threat to global health in the 21st century 2009.

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