Global climate change and human health |
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Authors: | Bentham Graham |
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Institution: | (1) Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ Norwich, England |
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Abstract: | Predicted changes in temperature during the next century and the possibility of substantial depletion of stratospheric ozone
would represent an unprecedently rapid change in the global environment with enormous effects including important impacts
on human health. These are likely to be most obvious in the Third World where some areas can expect an intencification of
existing major health hazards: an increased frequency of floods and storms; changes to the availability of food and good quality
domestic water supplies and climate-related changes in the ecology of insect vectors for diseases such as malaria. In developed
countries significant impacts can be also be anticipated. More frequent episodes of hot weather could be associated with more
food poisoning and with increases in deaths from circulatory diseases. These might be offset by lower mortality rates in warmer
winters. Exposure to photochemical atmospheric pollution is likely to increase. Stratospheric ozone depletion together with
more exposure to sun in warmer weather could accelerate the existing rise in the incidence of skin cancer and increase the
risk of cataracts. |
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