The purpose of this chapter is to illustrate the impacts of climate change on environmental
pollutants, chemical or biological pollutants, which are causing liver health problems. Liver …

This book reviews the current knowledge on how climate change impacts human health in
African regions, with a special focus on diseases of the liver and the gastrointestinal tract …

Climate change threatens human health either directly through the effects of extreme
weather events and ecosystem's deviation, or indirect impacts on health systems or …

Mitigation and adaptation are the two strategies for decreasing the hazardous impacts of
climate change. Mitigation is an intervention to reduce the greenhouse gases (GHGs) …

Health is a focus reflecting the combined impacts of climate change on the physical
environment, ecosystems, the economic environment and society. Long-term changes in the …

The purpose of this chapter is to review the scientific background to the issue of global
warming and climate change. This chapter starts by presenting the history of atmospheric …

Climate change was among the 26 environmental, behavioural and occupational risk factors
evaluated by WHO as part of a comparative assessment of the causes of global and regional …

Climate change around the world is now a reality that has adverse effects on the
environment and human health. There is little information about the effect of climate change …

Climate change is one of the greatest emerging threats of the 21st century. There is much
scientific evidence that climate change is giving birth to direct health events including more …

The scientific community agrees that climate change is happening, is largely human
induced, and will have serious consequences for human health (Field and others 2014). The …