CLIMATE AND HEALTH

The Climate and Health section aims at raising awareness among the general population and health professionals on the climate-related health effects. As well, it drives the attention towards the good health practices and behaviours that can contribute to climate change mitigation. 

Climate change is defined as the "greatest global health threat facing the world in the 21st century" by The Lancet, one of the major medical journals. While global warming and the increasing frenquency in extreme events are causing direct health impacts, on the other side they also influence the social determinants of health. These are non-medical conditions but rather socio-economical and political factors that affect people's health and wellbeing.

ARTICLES AND PAPERS


NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ACTORS

  • WHO, World Health Organization, Climate Change and Human Health section.
  • Country Profiles, is a WHO et UNFCCC collaboration providing policy makers and civil society with country-specific information on climate-related diseases and health effects as well as climate mitigation and adaptation strategies.
  • GCHA, brings together non governmental organisations to tackle the health consequences of climate change.
  • HEAL, no-profit organisation based in Europe promoting advocacy actions and raising awareness initiatives on environmental health and climate change.  
  • ISDE Italia, association of medical doctors for the environment
  • Istituto Superiore di Sanità is the national health institute and it collaborates with the Ministry of Health and Environment

OUR NEWS ON CLIMATE AND HEALTH

CULTIVATED MEAT: A Possible Measure for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

Cultured meat (or "cultured meat") is a type of meat that is produced through the methodology known as "cellular agriculture." Cellular agriculture aims to produce food, including meat, fish and dairy products, from the cultivation of stem cells. The first key difference from conventional meat production is that cultured meat does not require animal farming. In fact, the main innovation of cultured meat is that it is not strictly necessary to grow one or more animals to obtain meat, but that it is possible to grow cells to obtain only the tissues needed for food.

CLIMATE MOBILITY AND MENTAL HEALTH CAUSES AND CHALLENGES

Climate change also has very different impacts on people's lives depending on the latitude in which they live. Several hundred thousand people are forced to move temporarily or permanently because their usual places of residence are no longer liveable.

WATER SCARCITY AND MENTAL HEALTH

Data from reports on global sanitation reveal the presence of an alarming disparity in access to clean water or water resources in general, with deleterious consequences for the health of many of the world's populations. Indeed, the United Nations has come together to discuss and implement change and safeguards with respect to water scarcity. The global water crisis is accompanied by a modest misuse of water for industrial reasons, along with a lack of awareness at the societal level of this problem. Likewise, the heavily affected populations also and especially suffer at the psychological level from this crisis, which is also associated with other effects of climate change. It is therefore considered important to address the psychological distress associated with the difficulties of obtaining clean water, as well as to ensure a more egalitarian and just distribution of resources for all countries of the world.
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