Climate Change and Impacts of Extreme Events on Human Health: An Overview

Authors

  • Aadil Gulzar Department of Environmental Science, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India
  • Tajamul Islam Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India
  • Ruquia Gulzar Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India
  • Tabasum Hassan Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47540/ijsei.v2i1.180

Keywords:

Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Diseases, Human Health, Population

Abstract

The causes of climate patchy rope in heat up temperature, change in precipitation, degree of utmost conditions occasions like melting of glaciers, polar ice-caps, mount in sea levels, etc. These impacts eventually fall our income by touching the rations we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe and the earth somewhere we live. Frequent impacts caused fitting to excessive exposure of heat waves such as round stroke, dehydration, cardiovascular, respiratory and neural comborbidities. Climate conversion alters the ecology of vectors and these vectors are capable of have in stock causal agents such as viruses, bacteria and protozoa from animals to humans. Malaria, tick-borne encephalitis, fair fever, plague, and dengue obtain lengthened their geographical ranges as their carriers migrated to privileged latitudes. Droughts canister take part in adverse property on being health, as they over and over again suggest itself in mishmash with other sit out conditions, such as warm waves, wildfires and dust storms. Reduced water quantity may cause decreased water flow during periods of drought, encouraging the development of pathogens which prefer dry, stagnant environments. Altering climatic situation know how to be attributed to mounting international temperatures, spread in the dimensions of ambient fill up fumes and changes in the announce motion as mutual together. Extreme season and climate-related actions are famous to set off fundamental infrastructure failures, lucrative harm and relocation of communities, ensuing in a quantity of health problems.

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2021-04-20

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Aadil Gulzar, Tajamul Islam, Ruquia Gulzar, & Tabasum Hassan. (2021). Climate Change and Impacts of Extreme Events on Human Health: An Overview . Indonesian Journal of Social and Environmental Issues (IJSEI), 2(1), 68-77. https://doi.org/10.47540/ijsei.v2i1.180

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