Download This PaperSocio-Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in India Issues and Challenges
Climate and Urbanisation, 2019
15 Pages Posted: 28 May 2020
Date Written: October 9, 2019
Abstract
The basic objective of the paper is to analyze the Socio-Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in India: Issues and Challenges direct and indirect impact and effects of climate change on health sector through a complex set of mutually supporting interactions in South Asian Countries like India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan and basically to provide techniques of organization and adaption of health-related effects. Climate change affects the social and environmental contributing factor of health – clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food, and secure shelter. Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250 000 additional deaths per year, from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress. The direct damage costs to health is estimated to be between USD 2-4 billion/year by 2030. Areas with weak health communications – mostly in developing countries – will be the least able to manage without support to prepare and respond. The World Bank has made the ensuing sanctions in this regard: Climate, climate change and human health in India. Likewise, this study highlights the changes in the sample and circulation of disease-spreading insects, viruses, bacteria and increasing rate of deaths during last one decade owing to bigger frequency and strictness of heatwaves and other extreme weather activities under secondary data and information. Warmer and wetter conditions will lead to more vector-borne diseases like malaria, dengue is fever and deaths. More assessments of the impacts of climate change on health in different tropical belts. The mountain regions of South Asia will be more suffered by a rise in temperature and climate-sensitive problems. The paper also postulates health determinants and health outcomes with an adaptive strategy. Predicted impacts on human health owing to climate change include increases in temperature-related illnesses, vector-borne diseases, health impacts related to extreme weather events, and health effects owing to food insecurity. In turn, these will require more emphasis to be placed on planning for health facilities, as well as the increased capacity of the medical community to cope with these changes. Therefore, given the above, this paper looks at the Socio-Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in India: Issues and Challenges
Keywords: Climate change, Health Sector, Public Health, Perceptions, Attitudes Opinions, Bacterial Disease, Malaria, Vulnerability, Global environmental challenges, Disaster,
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