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Potential Human Health Effects of Global Climate Change
Pages 7-14

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... POTENTIAL Hl MAN HEALTH EFFECTS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE Conference participants noted that the anticipated human health risks caused by global climate change will not be localized; instead, they will occur on a large scale, impinging on entire populations. In addition to increasing the familiar, direct effects of climate (i.e., extreme weather events such as heatwaves and floods)
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... Global climate change is likely to affect the geographic distribution of animals and insects and could expand transmission of infectious diseases carried by mosquitoes (e.g., malaria, dengue, and yellow fever) and other vectors, such as ticks, sandflies, and fleas.
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... In fact, heat-related mortality may prove to be the largest direct health threat from global climate change. The deaths of 726 people that were attributed to a heatwave in Chicago in the summer of 1995 may be an extreme example, but it serves as a possible indicator of what might occur if climate change scenarios are correct.
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... American Tnatomine 1008 18 million Central and South Trypanosomiasis Bug America (Chagas'disease) Dengue Mosquito 1,800 10-30 millionlyr All Tropical Countries ++ Yellow Fever Mosquito 450 <5,000 cases/yr Tropical South ++ America and Africa NOTE: + = likely, ~ ~ = very likely, +++ = highly likely, and ?
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... Multidisciplinary, multisectoral research to develop reliable indicators could have extremely broad benefits for public health. Excerpts from a special briefing at the Conference on Human Health and Global Climate Change, September 1 1, 1995.
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... Pictoral representation of global climate impact anamolies due to ENSO. (Provided by NOAA, based on work of C
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... Fresh Water Quality and Quantity Great spatial and temporal variability characterize water availablility. Climate change may exacerbate such vanations.
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... FIGURE 3. Ways in which global climate change may affect human health.
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  • greenhouse gas
  • nonmelanoma skin
  • ultraviolet radiation
  • infectious organisms
  • stratospheric ozone

  • climate changes
  • weather disasters
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  • anticipated human
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  • poor sanitation


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