Interdisciplinary perspectives on climate change and health
Do you want to explore the intersection between climate change and public health?
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Esperanza Diaz, Professor, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care at UiB and Director of the Pandemic Center.
Health and climate are interconnected directly, through easily recognizable causality chains but also indirectly, through complex interactions more difficult to understand and address.
Changes in infectious diseases transmitting from animals to humans, increase in mental health problems among young people because of fear for planetary health, changes in patterns of disease and need for health care provision due to displacement of populations and conflicts fueled by scarce water and food resources, are some of the health consequences of environment problems. In all cases, climate change aggrevates health risks, impacting vulnerable communities disproportionately.