• Health App
  • RESEARCH NEWS
    • S.M.A.R.T.
  • Free Listing
  • AUSTRALIA BUSH FIRE WILDLIFE FUND
  • Videos
  • About

RESEARCH NEWS & BLOGS
FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Climate Change will impact on health

7/21/2014

0 Comments

 
Picture
The British Medical Association  recognises the important role doctors have in tackling climate change and promoting the public health benefits of low carbon living.

Rising temperatures, changing sea levels and more frequent and extreme weather patterns will lead to increased morbidity and mortality associated with:

  • changing patterns of infectious diseases 
  • increased air pollution and UV radiation 
  • flooding 
  • heat waves 
  • food and water shortages

The   BMA further stated that in the UK, direct impacts are likely to include increased deaths, disease and injury due to:
  • heatwaves (with the greatest impact on the elderly, babies and young children, and people with ill-health) 
  • flooding and storms (including drowning, chemical hazards and contamination of drinking water and mental stress) 
  • increased spread of infections previously only seen in other parts of the world (such as tick-borne encephalitis, lyme disease, malaria, dengue, leptospirosis and West Nile Virus)
  • reduced food safety associated with warmer temperatures 
  • greater exposure to ultraviolet radiation with increased risk of sunburn, sunstroke and skin cancers  reduced air quality and increased pollens


0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    December 2019
    August 2019
    April 2019
    August 2018
    August 2017
    July 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed