Climate change is a major health threat to humanity, and health professionals around the world are already responding to the health risks caused by this ongoing crisis.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that in order to avoid catastrophic health effects and prevent millions of climate-related deaths, the earth should be reduced by a maximum of 1.5 ° C. Past emissions have already made some of global warming and other climate change inevitable. Global temperatures as high as 1.5 ° C are not considered safe, however; any tithe extra temperature will greatly affect human health and well-being.
Although no one is safe from these dangers, the people whose lives are being threatened first and foremost by the climate crisis are people who have little or no control over their causes, and who are unable to protect themselves and their families against them - the underprivileged. -Income and disadvantaged countries and communities.
The climate crisis threatens to delay the last fifty years of progress in development, global health, and poverty reduction, as well as to further increase existing health inequalities among people. It poses a serious threat to the achievement of universal health care (UHC) in a variety of ways - including combining existing disease burden and increasing existing barriers to accessing health services, often at times when they are most needed. More than 930 million people - about 12 percent of the world's population - use at least 10% of the home budget to pay for health care. With the poorest people without insurance, health shocks and stress already put an estimated 100 million people in poverty every year, and the effects of climate change are exacerbated by the practice.
Climate change has already affected health in many ways, including leading to death and illness from the most common weather events, such as heat waves, hurricanes and floods, eating disorders, overgrown animal and food habitats, water- and animal-borne diseases, and mental health problems. In addition, climate change undermines many of the social impacts of health, such as livelihoods, equity and access to health care and support structures for communities. These sensitive health and climate risks are equally expressed by those most at risk and disadvantaged, including women, children, races, poor communities, migrants or the homeless, the elderly, and those with hidden health conditions.
While climate change can no doubt affect human health, it is still a challenge to accurately measure the scale and impact of many climate-sensitive health risks. However, advances in science gradually allow us to predict the increase in morbidity and mortality as a result of man-made global warming, and to determine with greater accuracy the risks and risks of these health threats.
In the short to medium term, the health impacts of climate change will be largely determined by the vulnerability of communities, their resilience to the current climate change rate and the rate and speed of adaptability. Over time, the results will largely depend on how far the change is being taken now in order to reduce emissions and avoid the violation of dangerous temperatures and potentially reversible areas.
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