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Global Fever | Human health
Climate change currently contributes to the global burden of disease and increases vulnerability and mortality: health impacts will progressively increase worldwide. The effects are unequally distributed between the countries, according to their income level and their adaptability. Climate change plays an important role in distribution of many different diseases, such as malaria, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, cancer and malnutrition. Extreme events (heatwaves, floods, storms, fires and droughts) are more frequent and has many impacts on water quality and seasonal distribution of some allergenic pollen species, even on food safety and ecosystems (e.g. migratory birds, infected arthropod species, mosquitoes, ticks). Strategies need to be implemented by national governments, by International Organizations (such as the WHO), and by individuals. Regional and local organizations are important to take advantage of local knowledge and perspectives. International organizations and agencies play key roles through direct aid, support of research and development. Here is the complex system of relationships between world and society, climate effects and human health. The upper part of this poster is about the situation of the last fifty years, in some relevant case study countries: Bangladesh, China and Germany. The extreme events occurrence is related to the number of affected people and deaths. In the lower part, three actors (disasters, nations and people) are connected by a cause-effect link that shows the influence of different disasters on national societies (adaptability) and human health (diseases,) in 2007.
Project by:
Caglio Veronica
Conchetto Elena
Frisicaro Veronica
Villa Santiago
Wei Dian
Global Fever | Human health
Climate change currently contributes to the global burden of disease and increases vulnerability and mortality: health impacts will progressively increase worldwide. The effects are unequally distributed between the countries, according to their income level and their adaptability. Climate change plays an important role in distribution of many different diseases, such as malaria, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, cancer and malnutrition. Extreme events (heatwaves, floods, storms, fires and droughts) are more frequent and has many impacts on water quality and seasonal distribution of some allergenic pollen species, even on food safety and ecosystems (e.g. migratory birds, infected arthropod species, mosquitoes, ticks). Strategies need to be implemented by national governments, by International Organizations (such as the WHO), and by individuals. Regional and local organizations are important to take advantage of local knowledge and perspectives. International organizations and agencies play key roles through direct aid, support of research and development. Here is the complex system of relationships between world and society, climate effects and human health. The upper part of this poster is about the situation of the last fifty years, in some relevant case study countries: Bangladesh, China and Germany. The extreme events occurrence is related to the number of affected people and deaths. In the lower part, three actors (disasters, nations and people) are connected by a cause-effect link that shows the influence of different disasters on national societies (adaptability) and human health (diseases,) in 2007.
Project by:
Caglio Veronica
Conchetto Elena
Frisicaro Veronica
Villa Santiago
Wei Dian