WHO: Climate change threatens the health of mankind – The Republic

The World Health Assembly has analyzed the relationship between climate and health strategy and calling it a touchy subject, to be included on the agenda as soon as possible after 2015.’s report, submitted at the meeting of the World Health Organization held in Geneva in recent days has focused attention on the crucial role of environmental degradation and global warming, they are having an undeniable direct and indirect impact on the populations.

The theme is been addressed by the Deputy Minister of Health of Cuba, Jose Angel Portal, who explained how this phenomenon is the cause of the emergence of new diseases and the proliferation of agents of transmission, also due to the decrease in the availability of water and the lack of food over that the increase in natural disasters.

But it is not just climate change that increase the risk for the population, it would in fact also the excessive heat one of the major causes of death, caused by heat stroke and the consequences of exposure to solar radiation, that can cause disease of the skin. Also for this reason, then Portal reiterated the need to include health considerations post-2015 agenda, so as to ensure greater attention to the planet on issues deemed to be of paramount importance to ensure the survival of humanity.

(* the preparation of RINNOVABILI.IT)

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