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Vietnam: Climate change and health

Commonground

Senior Moderator
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 7:27 (GMT +7)
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The direct impact to health

Climate change related directly and indirectly to the life and public health in all countries, especially poor people living in areas vulnerable to impacts of climate change caused (tsunami coastal areas, infectious diseases in the tropics ...). Direct impact of climate change to human health through the exchange relationship material and energy between the human body with the surrounding environment, lead to physiological changes and practices, the ability adaptation and response of the body for the impact. The prolonged hot stage, air temperature increase caused the adverse impacts to human health, leading to increased risk for certain age, people with cardiovascular disease, neurological diseases , allergies. Indirect impacts of climate change to human health through sources of disease, increases the likelihood of the outbreak and spread of diseases such as influenza A/H1N1, A/H5N1 influenza, diarrhea, cholera ... Climate change increases the possibility of some tropical diseases like malaria, dengue fever, Japanese encephalitis, accelerates the growth and development of many types of bacteria and insects, with host disease ( flies, mosquitoes, rats, fleas, ve). Climate change is one of the reasons for the appearance of a return to infectious diseases in the tropics (malaria, Dengue fever, plague, cholera), appearance of new infectious diseases ( SARS, influenza A/H5N1, influenza A/H1N1), promoting the process of mutation of the virus that causes influenza A/H1N1, H5N1 faster. Human activities have caused variation in the ecosystems on land and water, hunting illegally reduced significantly, even causing death kill a rare animal species, greenhouse gas emissions are increasing main cause of the trend of global warming, ozone layer destroyed leading to the increase of ultraviolet radiation on the ground, that causes skin cancer and eye disease.

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