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Climate Change: Impact on Health and Infectious Diseases Globally

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There is a growing concern of the effect of climate change with rising global temperature on the well-being and health of populations across the world. Cumulative scientific data for more than 50 years indicate that global warming is from the greenhouse effect of rising carbon dioxide [CO2] in the atmosphere, predominantly attributed to human activities. This effect results not only in an increase in ambient temperature, but produces major climatic perturbations such as land erosions from rising sea levels due to melting of the Arctic and Antarctic ice/glaciers, droughts, increase severity of hurricanes and cyclones, and floods in some areas. These adverse consequences will have detrimental effects [already occurring] on most countries globally, but greater on low-middle income nations, with negative impacts on economies and development, agriculture and food supply, rising rates of poverty and malnutrition, mass migration and displacement of peoples due to economic hardship and conflicts, education of children in poor nations, and the health and welfare of many millions of people worldwide. This chapter discusses the scientific basis of climate change, direct and indirect effects on human well-being and health, including a predictable increase of certain infectious diseases.

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