Impacts of climate change on human health

Abstract

Climate change poses major challenges to human society and to Earth systems, influencing the functioning of many ecosystems and thereby affecting human health. Many climate change/variability and extreme weather-associated events, such as sea level rise, hurricanes, and storm surge, as well as other weather extremes, including excessive precipitation and heatwaves, have direct and/or indirect impacts on human health. These impacts include death/injury, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, environmentally-mediated infectious diseases, and mental health, among others. The aim of this study is describing health impacts of the climate change through projected trends in climate-change-related health. The paper consists, the priority of introduction part is to define impacts of climate change on human health, and to present the relevant relationship between global climate change and health and it’s provide a background on climate change effect on health.