Global Change and Health By Antje Danielson – TELI 2013

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Environment Health

ConnectionTeaching

Research / Tools

Communication

Environmental Change

Climate changeChanging rainfall

Storm waterDestruction of infrastructureLoss of crops

Under-nourishmentImpact on vectors

Vector-borne disease

DroughtCrop failure

Malnutrition

FloodingAccess to clean water

Water borne disease

Sealevel riseSalt infiltration in coastal areas

Heat waves Increased mortality

Ocean acidificationHarmful algae bloom (HAB)

Poisoning Skin disease

Stratospheric ozone depletion Skin cancer

Nitrogen and phosphorus cycleN in air and water

Respiratory disease Cardiovascular disease Seasonal allergies Blue baby disease Vector borne diseases

Biodiversity lossEcosystem services loss

Loss in potential cures

Chemical pollution Global freshwater use

Cancer Autoimmune system responses

Atmospheric aerosol loading Asthma Pulmonary disease

Land use changePressure on ecosystems

Zoonotic disease

Finding Just Solutions

It is the world's poor, who bear the biggest disease burdens, and can expect soaring rates of ill health.

This increase will come partly from shifting population dynamics, as people flee flooded coasts or searing deserts for more habitable areas, or from a rise in diseases carried by insects, such as mosquitoes or ticks, with 'vectors' influenced by environmental change, or by violence and crisis due to population pressures, or from the pollution of natural resources critical to human and animal health.

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