Health impacts of climate change and biosecurity in the Asian Pacific region
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Peter D. Sly
Abstract
Our climate is changing as a result of human activity, and such changes have the potential to have a significant impact on human health. The basic requirements for health – clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food and secure shelter – are all vulnerable to climate change. Low-income developing countries are especially vulnerable; no country, however, is totally immune. In Australia, we are already seeing evidence of the health effects of climate change with an increase in temperature-related food poisoning events and an increase in mosquito-borne infections, including Ross River virus and Dengue fever. In the Asian Pacific region the issues identified as most pressing vary from country to country, but a common theme is a lack of public understanding and education and lack of capacity for implementing mitigation strategies. Strategies addressing the health impacts of climate change must incorporate the principles of social justice and equity within the region.
©2011 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin New York
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- Letter from the Editor: Introducing our new publisher
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- Emerging issues in the Pacific Basin
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Articles in the same Issue
- Editorials
- Letter from the Editor: Introducing our new publisher
- Environmental exposures in the era of climate change
- Reviews
- Health impacts of climate change and biosecurity in the Asian Pacific region
- Exposures to lead
- The status of water and sanitation among Pacific Rim nations
- Hazardous waste in the Asian Pacific region
- Emerging issues in the Pacific Basin
- Baseline determination in social, health, and genetic areas in communities affected by glyphosate aerial spraying on the northeastern Ecuadorian border
- Air pollution: a tale of two countries
- Health effects of persistent organic pollutants: the challenge for the Pacific Basin and for the world
- Arsenic geochemistry and human health in South East Asia
