CLIMATE CHANGES AND ITS CONSEQUENCES ON PUBLIC HEALTH

 

 

13-Jun-2022

Dr. EBAD Khan

 

Climate alternate has a big effect on human well-being, fitness heed structures, and community fitness framework. Human well-being is gover2wszened with the aid of the expanded severity of disability exacerbated by way of modifications and intense climate occasions, similarly to the advent of extraordinary worsening of existing deep-rooted ailments. A lot of those related fitness influences have an immediate bring about the supply of emergency hospital therapy.

 

EFFECTS ON HEALTH

    

The impact of changing weather patterns, such as more frequent and extreme weather, heat waves, droughts and extreme flooding, changing types of in-borne diseases, and risk to food and water welfare can have a significant impact on public fitness. These impacts range from immediate risk to  protection to long-term impacts on mental health and social well-being. As climate intensifies, the impacts on public welfare are expected to be longer lasting, with an exceptional occurrence each year, and spreading to areas that have not previously experienced these threats.

 

EXTREME HEAT

   

As humid warmness extremes come to be more frequent because of climate exchange, scientists are expecting that associated fitness influences will increase as a consequence, leading to extra warmth-associated fetal deaths each summer. 

 

SEVERE CLIMATE ALTERATION

   

Excessive climatic activity, exacerbated by the use of climate trade, results in death, damage, pollution, deterioration of basic scientific conditions, and adverse impacts on intellectual health, along with droughts, heavy rains, floods and strong hurricanes from warm waters. These public health risks are expected to increase as extreme weather events become more frequent and intense.

 

CHEMICAL SECURITY

    

Chemical security has always been a major public health issue. However, it is mainly during severe climatic events. Excessive climatic activity can wash away harmful chemicals from soil, homes, industrial waste and other objects and disseminate them into the air and water.

 

WILD FIRES

   

Wildfires no longer pose an immediate threat to the protection of nearby residents, but they also endanger the health of people living in more remote areas 20 miles away from exposure to harmful air pollutants, including particles, found in wildfire smoke. Substances that depend on ozone and carbon monoxide. The health effects associated with wildfire smoke range from mild irritation of the eyes, nose and throat to hospitalization and death from severe breathing problems.


MEALS SAFETY

  

The effects of weather exchange, including harsh climates, exposure to pathogens and pests, and rising carbon dioxide levels, pose major threats to food safety in the United States. Floods, hurricanes, droughts,  can increase temperatures significantly, preventing the growth of some plants, including corn.

 

WATER PROTECTION

Extreme temperatures, heavy rainfall and climate change-induced flooding pose risks to America's water demand and protection. Increased water temperatures and improved stormwater runoff from more frequent and intensive rainfall can promote harmful algal growth and introduce harmful pathogens into recreational beverages. Water and drinking water. Damage to aging water and sanitation infrastructure from more severe storms and flooding also jeopardizes access to reasonably good and easy drinking water.

 

OVERVIEW

The impact of weather conditions on health can be determined by considering, inter alia, the vulnerability of the population, resilience to sudden changes in weather, and the number and rate of changes. Over a longer period of time, the results will increasingly depend on the degree of deformation motion currently being performed to reduce emissions and avoid violating dangerous temperature thresholds and irreversible points of capacitance.

 

         

 

REFERENCES

Who.int. 2022. Climate change and health. [online] Available at: <https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-change-and-health> 

UN Web TV. 2022. Climate Change and its Impact on our Health – SDG Media Zone, High-Level Week, 74th session of the UN General Assembly (23 September 2019). [online] Available at: <https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1d/k1dkqdvj54> [Accessed 1 May 2022].


This article is written by Dr Ebad Khan MBBS FCPS (Cardiology) on 2nd May 2022. He is currently practicing at Mayo Hospital Lahore, Pakistan.