Global Warming (Global Warming) to impact on various aspects of human life, including the health sector and also affect environmental changes such as:

Changes in weather and seas, shifting ecosystems and environmental degradation.

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Changes in weather and ocean can be a global increase in temperature (heat) which can lead to the emergence of diseases associated with heat (heat stroke) and mortality, especially in the elderly, children and chronic disease. Hot temperatures can also lead to crop failures that will appear hunger and malnutrition. Changes in extreme weather and sea level rise due to melting Arctic ice cap could lead to diseases associated with natural disasters (floods, storms and fires) and deaths due to trauma. The emergence of natural disasters are usually accompanied by the displacement of people into refugee camps where disease often appear, such as: diarrhea, malnutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, psychological trauma, skin diseases, and others.

Ecosystem shift could have an impact on the spread of waterborne diseases (Waterborne diseases) and the spread of disease through vector (vector-borne diseases). Why did this happen? Let’s take the example of the increasing incidence of dengue fever. Mosquito Aedes aegypti as a vector of this disease has a pattern of life and breed in warm regions. That’s what causes the disease developed in many urban areas are hotter than the cold mountainous regions. But with the occurrence of Global Warming, in which global warming occurs, then the mountain areas began to increase its temperature in order to provide space (ecosystem) new breed mosquitoes.

Environmental degradation caused by sewage pollution in the river also contributes to waterborne diseases and vector-borne disease. Coupled with air pollution emissions of these gases are not controlled factory will further contribute to respiratory diseases like asthma, allergies, coccidiodomycosis, chronic heart and lung disease, and others.

Thus the influence of global warming on our health. Are we still a blind eye to all these threats? Lets take action now!