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The Effects of Climate Change on HEALTH - Coggle Diagram
The Effects of Climate Change on HEALTH
Climate change has numerous social consequences.
household vulnerability to poverty, hunger, disease, mortality, displacement and conflict in many developing countries.
Heatwaves make us less able to work and reduce productivity.
ydamage socio-economic and ecological
life support systems. Long-term resilience strategies – not
short-sighted ones –
literature illustrates the economic and social challenges facing cities around the world
Climate change impacts the environmental health.
Climate change is characterized by a change in weather patterns caused by increased atmospheric carbon dioxide, produced by the use of fossil fuels. This rise in atmospheric CO2 has detrimental effects, as it leads to elevated levels of trapped heat and higher air temperatures. This disrupts the balance of nature and destroys the habitat of many species.
Loss of essential species, disrupts the food chain, causing a disasterous chain reaction.
Natural disasters sudden events that are caused due to changing environmental patterns .
Climate change increases disease cases.
• Smoke exposure increases respiratory and cardiovascular hospitalizations with lung illnesses
• immediate health hazards associated with extreme precipitation events when flooding occurs,
impacting health in a myriad of ways, including by leading to death and illness from increasingly frequent extreme weather events, such as heatwaves, storms and floods, the disruption of food systems
• Climate change is projected to harm human health by increasing ground-level ozone
• Hot temperatures increase the ozone concentration, which can damage people's lung tissue and cause complications for asthma patients and those with lung diseases.
• is already impacting health in a myriad of ways, including by leading to death and illness from increasingly frequent extreme weather events, such as heatwaves, storms and floods, the disruption of food systems
Climate change impacts mental health.
with mental illness are especially susceptible to heat. Suicide rates vary with weather, rising with high temperatures, suggesting potential impacts from climate change on depression and other mental illnesses
emotional distress to anxiety, depression, grief, and suicidal behavior.
due to type of weather
