Climate Change and Potential Health Effects in Mexican Children | Zendy

Horacio Riojas–Rodríguez | Zendy; María Laura Quezada-Jiménez | Zendy; Pamela Zúñiga-Bello | Zendy; Magali HurtadoDíaz | Zendy

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Climate Change and Potential Health Effects in Mexican Children

Author(s) -

Horacio Riojas–Rodríguez,

María Laura Quezada-Jiménez,

Pamela Zúñiga-Bello,

Magali HurtadoDíaz

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

annals of global health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.602

H-Index - 66

ISSN - 2214-9996

DOI - 10.29024/aogh.915

Subject(s) - environmental health , climate change , heat wave , human health , environmental science , global warming , hygiene , global health , environmental planning , environmental protection , public health , medicine , ecology , biology , pathology , nursing

Climate change (CC) is the most important challenge of our time, a long-term global problem and one of the most serious global threats to human health in the future. CC is the expression of changes in temperature and water cycle, floods and drought events, extreme heat waves and sea level rise. Children are particularly vulnerable because they are highly sensitive to climate changes. The main environmental hazards affecting children's health are poor household drinking water quality and availability, lack access to adequate sanitary facilities, poor hygiene practices, outdoor and indoor air pollution, vector-borne diseases, chemical hazards, and unintentional injuries. Except for some unintentional injuries, these environmental hazards are associated to CC.

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