PUBHLTH 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Emergency Management, Cardiovascular Disease, Asthma
20 Oct 2016
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Rise in global temperature: 0. 8 degrees celsius (1. 4 degrees fahrenheit) Who: additional 250k deaths per year between 2030-2050: 38k among elderly due to heat exposure, 48k due to diarrhea, 60k to malaria, 95k child malnutrition. What"s respo(cid:374)si(cid:271)le for (cid:272)li(cid:373)ate (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge: un intergovernmental panel on climate change (2013) Merit: affects the people that have contributed the least to global warming. Climate change events and impact on humans: droughts and inconsistent rainfall agriculture production, heat wave stress on body, flooding infrastructure water pollution, higher average temperature respiratory diseases asthma development. Low-income and middle-income countries: weak health infrastructure. Urban areas: air pollution and rise in temperature. Children and elderly: diarrheal disease, malaria, undernutrition, and cardiovascular disease. Long term: reduce long-term carbon emissions, reduce burning of fossil fuels, halting of deforestation and forest degradation. 1988 intergovernmental panel on climate change (ipcc) 1995 1st conference of the parties (cop1) Intended nationally determined contributions or indcs (country specific goals) Adopted december 12, 2015 191 countries signed.
