Human Influences on Climate Change: A Review
Keywords:
climate change, human healthAbstract
Human beings are progressively affecting climate and temperature via combustion of fossil fuels, forest reduction and animal husbandry. That increases the greenhouse effect and global warming by adding huge volumes of greenhouse gases to those naturally existing in the atmosphere. Changes in precipitation, for example, lead to changes in water availability and quality as well as severe weather events like strong hurricanes and floods. It becomes necessary to look at the cumulative trend in climate change effect on human health, to adopt alleviation measures, such as consolidation health systems and service delivery systems via early monitoring, illness research, vector and disease control, and medical insurance. Investment in research and development, calculation of health risks, mapping of vulnerability, creating baseline conditions, modelling the scenarios and accepting methods for clean expansion and so on.
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