You may ask what this link is all about, on this the link between climate change and human health is increasingly evident, with rising global temperatures and extreme weather events posing significant risks and with a climate change affects health directly through heat waves, floods, and which indirectly alter the ecosystems, and affecting our food and water supplies, increases the prevalence of diseases.
Hence one of the most immediate impacts is the increase in heat-related illnesses and deaths has to do with prolonged exposure to high temperatures which lead to heat exhaustion, and other recognised dishes of cardiovascular and respiratory conditions, hence with a vulnerable populations, which has to do with those with pre-existing health issues, are particularly at risk.
The same with extreme weather events like we have the hurricanes and floods, displacement, and mental health challenges which as much disrupt the healthcare services, thereby leading to increases in terms of mortality and morbidity, while the destruction of infrastructure and homes creates long-term health and social related issues.
Through climate change influences the spread of infectious diseases where warmer temperatures alters precipitation patterns and expand the habitats of vectors which has to do with likes of mosquitoes, that causes the increase in the transmission of diseases like we have with malaria, dengue and through this changes in climate has impact of resulting to food security by reducing crop yields, which leads to malnutrition which is associated health problems.
By addressing and figuring out solutions for that of climate change it is needed for protecting human health where adaptation strategies, like we have over reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthen the healthcare systems which are necessary in order to minimize the health impacts and increase community resilience.
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