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Child-specific, climate-sensitive health risks and effects


Oct 14m 2010

Source: NIH

National Library of Medicine

National Center for Biotechnology Information

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Table 1.

Child-specific, climate-sensitive health risks and effectsa through the lens of global climate change as a risk factor and resulting epidemiologic challenges.b

Child-specific, climate-sensitive health risks and effects

Climate–health response function determinants

Current preventable climate-sensitive disease burden globally

Models of future burden of disease

Infectious disease

Vector control programs, water and sanitation infrastructure, immunization status

More than 80,000 annual deaths due to malaria and diarrheal disease in children < 15 years of age; DALYs not quantified by category

No age-stratified projections exist by disease category

Food, water, toxics

Food and water availability, access, and quality

Almost 4,000 deaths from protein–energy malnutrition in children < 15 years of age; DALYs not quantified by category


Air contaminants

Particulate matter, ground-level ozone, and other pollutant levels; air quality alerts; pollen timing and intensity

Unquantified


Extreme weather

Early warning systems, emergency preparedness plans, baseline infrastructure

Almost 1,000 annual deaths from unintentional injury associated with extreme weather


Population displacement

Political stability, services available to climate refugees

Unquantified


a

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