Climate for Health

MARCH 3, 2025

Climate change is considered one of the greatest threats to public health in the 21st century. The last few years have seen worsening heat waves, wildfires, floods, drought, and the spread of vector-borne diseases as the world heats up from the burning of coal, gas, and oil.

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Vector-borne Diseases Climate Change and Health 147

Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 7, 2025

While climate coverage often focuses on heat, its health impacts have a broader audience appeal. Climate change affects air pollution, diseases and extreme weather. Medical schools across the United States are increasingly incorporating climate change and health into their curricula.

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UK Health Security

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The increasing number of cases of dengue and malaria that we are seeing at the moment in the UK are travel-related, so people have picked them up when visiting countries where mosquito-borne illnesses are transmitted. The spread of the tiger mosquito is influenced by factors such as climate change and global trade.

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Gideon

MARCH 18, 2021

There are many factors that cause some infectious diseases to follow seasonal patterns. Changes in temperature and precipitation influence biotic and abiotic environments, disease vectors and hosts, and human behavior, including the amount of time spent outdoors (1). e55-e55, 2001. Available: 10.1542/peds.108.3.e55

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Vector-borne Diseases Climate Change and Health Ageing and Health Environmental Health 52

Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 16, 2025

But far fewer people are familiar with chikungunya, a tropical disease likely to increase with the continuing effects of climate change. One reason chikungunya gets so little respect is that the size of its potential health and its economic burden have been underestimated. One DALY is the loss of one year of full health.)

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