O Impacto das Alterações Climáticas na Saúde

There is broad consensus among scientists that climate change is occurring and increasing evidence that human health will be affected by it in many ways. Some of the impact will be direct, such as deaths related to heat waves. Others will result indirectly from disturbances to complex physical and ecological processes, such as changes in patterns of infectious disease, drinking-water supplies, agricultural yields and malnutrition, mental and post-traumatic stress disorders arising from fires, floods and greater urbanisation, and respiratory diseases arising from poor air quality.