Abstract
Social and environmental determinants of health such as safe drinking water, sufficient food, and secure shelter, are grossly affected by climate change; and in the next three decades, the impact of climate change and environmental degradation is estimated to cause about a quarter of a million additional deaths, yearly, from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea, and heat stress. The direct damage cost to the health, excluding costs in health determining sectors, such as agriculture and water sanitation; is appropriated to be between $2-4 Billion US Dollars per year, according to the World Health Organization, WHO. However, it is expected that the developing countries will be unable to cope without any assistance given, to prepare and response to the influence of the climate change on their populations, because of the weak infrastructural frameworks in the region. Therefore, it is imperative that reducing emissions of greenhouse gases by making power on-site with renewables and other climate-friendly energy resources and investing in improved, sophisticated agricultural practices, in order to increase food productivity and high quality animal products could help mitigate the proposed devastating effects of air pollution, malnutrition and prevalence of several non-communicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular, respiratory and neurological diseases associated with air pollution and environmental degradation.
Presenters
Benjamin AdebisiResearcher, Functional and Molecular Neurobiology, Institute of Anatomy, Cell Biology, Brain and Neurodegeneration, Osun, Nigeria Cynthia Cliff
Queensland University of Technology
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Human Impacts and Responsibility
KEYWORDS
CLIMATE CHANGE, MALNUTRITION, DISEASES
