Geographical differences on the mortality impact of heat waves in Europe

Environmental Health

Commentary

Jordi Sunyer¹ 

[1] Centre for Research on Environmental epidemiology CREAL, arcelona, Spain;

关键词: Influenza;    Heat Wave;    Extreme Climate Event;    Head Wave;    Heat Wave Effect;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1476-069X-9-38

 received in 2010-07-01, accepted in 2010-07-16,  发布年份 2010

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Climate change is potentially the biggest global health threat in the 21st century. Deaths related with heat waves and spread of infectious diseases will be part of the menace though the major impact will be caused by malnutrition, diarrhea and extreme climate events. Consequently, loss of healthy life years as a result of global climate change is predicted to be 500 times greater in poor African populations than in European populations. However, the increase of more than 2°C of average temperature will result in a negative health impact in all regions, the potential benefits of a warmer temperature being negatively compensated, heat waves being one of the largest climate change threats in the developed world.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© Sunyer; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2010