How can the climate change influence on our health?
The climate change is an emergent considerable threat for the public health and modifies the way in which we must consider the protection of the vulnerable populations.
The most recent report of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on the Climate Change confirms that there are overwhelming proofs that the human beings are concerning the world climate, and a wide variety of consequences stands out for the human health. The variability and the change of the climate cause deaths and diseases due to such natural disasters as waves of heat, floods and droughts. In addition, many important diseases are very sensitive to the changes of temperature and rainfall. Between them are common diseases transmitted by vectors, for example the malaria and the fastidiousness, but also other such big reasons of mortality as the malnutrición and the diarrheas.
The climate change already is contributing to the world load of morbility and it is foreseen that his contribution will increase in the future.
The repercussions of the climate change in the human health will not be distributed uniformly in the world. The populations of the developing countries, especially the small insular States, the arid zones, high mountain areas and the coastal densely populated zones they are considered to be specially vulnerable.The WHO endorses the states members in the protection of the public health opposite to the repercussions of the climate change and represents the voice of the sanitary sector in the global response of the United Nations to this world challenge.
The repercussions of the climate change in the human health will not be distributed uniformly in the world. The populations of the developing countries, especially the small insular States, the arid zones, high mountain areas and the coastal densely populated zones they are considered to be specially vulnerable.The WHO endorses the states members in the protection of the public health opposite to the repercussions of the climate change and represents the voice of the sanitary sector in the global response of the United Nations to this world challenge.
What can the communities do?
Against the increase of the floods:
- Improve of the national systems of early alert of floods
- Construct new housings and schools
- Construct the platforms of emergency housing of the floods
- Integrate the risks of flood in the governmental policies and the planning of the budget
- Instruct to the community in order that he plans actions to answer to the floods
- Improve of the national systems of early alert of floods
- Construct new housings and schools
- Construct the platforms of emergency housing of the floods
- Integrate the risks of flood in the governmental policies and the planning of the budget
- Instruct to the community in order that he plans actions to answer to the floods
- Improve the systems of early alert of hurricanes and to sensitize to the community
- Planting mangroves as a shield along the coast
- Change the procedure of construction to reinforce the new infrastructure