A press release: WHO calls for stronger action on health risks for climate related. Excerpt:
Previously unrecognized health benefits could be undertaken early action to mitigate climate change and its consequences. For example, changes in energy policy and transport could to diseases, to save millions of lives every year by high air pollution. Sufficient energy and transport policies and the burden of disease and physical inactivity accidents could connected.
Adaptation to climate change could save lives around the world to ensure that communities are better prepared to cope with the effects of heat, extreme weather conditions, infectious diseases and food insecurity.
World Conference
There are two important messages to the world conference on climate and health, will be discussed today at the headquarters of WHO opens in Geneva. The conference brings together more than 300 participants, including ministers, heads of UN organizations, community leaders, civil society and health, climate and leading experts in the field of sustainable development.
"The evidence is overwhelming: climate change risk to human health," said Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General. "There are solutions, and we must act decisively to change this path."
Cholera, malaria and dengue fever are very sensitive to weather and climate
WHO and its partners stress the importance of acting now to protect health in the present and the future. The community health care works hard to improve its ability to monitor and control infectious diseases such as cholera, malaria and dengue fever, which are very sensitive to weather and climate.
Climate change is already causing tens of thousands of deaths each year from changing patterns of disease, extreme weather events such as heat waves and flooding, and the degradation of water resources, sanitation and impacts on agriculture, according to the latest WHO data.