Journal of Health and Environmental Research

Special Issue

The Impacts of Future Global Climate Change on Human Health

  • Submission Deadline: Mar. 19, 2022
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Rakhad Alrawi
About This Special Issue
Climate means the average state of the atmosphere and the underlying land or water in a specific region over a specified time scale, which should be distinguished from weather, which is the atmospheric conditions at a specific place and time, usually the day to day variations. Climate changes refer to the statistically significant variations in either the mean state of the climate or in its measurable variability, persisting for an extended long period. Global climate change is now widely recognized as one of the big environmental challenge of the 21st century. Climate change, together with other natural and human-made health stressors, influences human health and disease in numerous ways. Some existing health threats will intensify and new health threats will emerge. Not everyone is equally at risk. Important considerations include the age, economic resources, and location. The evidence for human influence on climate change through emissions of greenhouse gases is now very strong: gases presented in the Earth's atmosphere, which reduce the loss of heat into space and therefore contribute to increase global temperatures and are mainly carbon dioxide from fuel burning, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone from various sources. The impacts of human-induced climate change are increasing all over the world. Rising greenhouse gas concentrations result in increases in temperature, changes in precipitation, increases in the frequency and intensity of some extreme weather events, and rising sea levels. These climate change impacts endanger human health by affecting food and water sources, the air we breathe, the weather we experience, and the interactions with the natural environments. Furthermore, Climate change will bring an acute toll worldwide, with rising temperatures, wildfires and poor air quality, accompanied by higher rates of cancer, especially lung, skin and gastrointestinal cancers Climate change is a significant threat to the human health worldwide. Therefore, the purpose of this special issue is to analyze the comprehensive effects of climate change related health impacts, to have better understanding of the risks climate change that present to human health.

Keywords:

  1. Human Health
  2. Future Global Climatic Changes
  3. Cancer
  4. Greenhouse Gases
  5. Temperature
  6. Ultraviolet Radiation
  7. Stratospheric
Lead Guest Editor
  • Rakhad Alrawi

    Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, United States