Climate Impact on Human Health

Dear Colleagues,

Within the framework of global warming, climate change affects social systems, economic systems and ecosystems as well as posing serious challenges to the survival and development of human societies. Among these, climate change threatens public health in particular. Global climate change not only brings about an increase in average temperatures, but also leads to a trend of frequent, widespread, intense and concurrent extreme weather and climate events, which will have a wide and complex impact on public health through direct and indirect impact pathways.

Evidence from studies has shown that climate change not only increases the risk of occurrence of human infectious diseases, chronic diseases and even acute injuries or premature deaths, but also causes mental health problems of varying degrees. Addressing climate change and reducing health risks has become a major issue that needs to be solved urgently. With the increasing attention and deepening of climate health risk research, interdisciplinary research has become an important feature of this research, combining climate science, geography, epidemiology, economics, management and other disciplines to explore policies and actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Many international organizations have also undertaken related work, such as the Lancet published Countdown Report on Population Health and Climate Change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published Working Group I report of its Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2021: The Natural Science Basis, and the United Nations has already made climate action one of its sustainable development goals.

Addressing climate change requires the participation of the whole society, and requires scientists, economists and others to conduct research on climate health risk assessment and prediction, as well as theories and methods of climate change policy assessment, in order to facilitate policy makers' decisions and choices. Based on the above, we cordially invite scientists and economists academics to contribute with their research papers on various aspects of the climate change and human health in the following Topics.

Potential themes relevant to this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Health risk assessments of climate change;
• Direct and indirect effects of climate change on health;
• Impacts of climate change on diseases (respiratory diseases, infectious diseases, COVID-19 outbreaks, etc.);
• Estimation of health risks for the population in different climate scenarios;
• Research on climate change risk response and adaptive capacity;
• Research on policies and actions to address climate change.

Dr. Zhiming Yang
Dr. Yunquan Zhang
Dr. Zheming Yan
Dr. Ang Li
Guest Editors

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• climate change
• extreme weather
• climate risk
• burden of disease
• physical health
• mental health
• climate policy