Globally, climate change It is one of the main concerns of recent years. And it contributes directly to the humanitarian emergencies caused by heat waves, wildfires, floods, tropical storms and hurricanesamong others.
Two main aspects
As expected, it also has consequences on health, especially in two aspects that stand out above others: the spread of diseases from some latitudes to others and in the punishment of our system for temperature variations.
That is, the fact that temperatures and climatic conditions are changing means that there are diseases that reach locations where they did not exist. This is the case of ‘West Nile virus‘, whose presence is increasing in Andalusia.
The harsh reality
Of course, climate change also affects the conditions that certain body systems suffer from temperature changes in short periods of time. “Before we were accustomed to gradual changes, our climate was temperate all four seasons of the year. And now, for example, there it is autumn that we carry,” he warned Adonina Tardónprofessor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, in ‘Cope’.
Furthermore, the specialist has added a forceful message about this reality: “One day it rains a lot and the next day it is perfectly sunny. All of this affects the balance of the cardiovascular, respiratory and kidney diseases“.
Future
As if that were not enough, this phenomenon causes immediate mental health problems (such as anxiety and post-traumatic stress) and long-term disorders caused by factors such as displacement and the deterioration of social cohesion.
With all this, it is worth noting that the climate crisis threatens to undo the last 50 years of progress in development, global health and poverty reduction, and to expand further health inequalities between and within populations.
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