Climate Health-Being: The Physical, Mental, and Financial Burden of Extreme Weather Events?
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 6133
Special Issue Editors
Interests: healthcare management and costing; food innovation management; climate health; environment sustainability
Interests: environmental epidemiology; statistical modelling; environmental microbiology; waterborne disease
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Interests: environment and health; groundwater contamination; climate change and health; waterborne diseasse
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are assembling a Special Issue on the physical, mental, and financial burden of climate change in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The venue is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal that publishes articles and communications in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. For detailed information about the journal, we refer you to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph Climate change is a complex phenomenon, resulting in both direct and indirect impacts on society and public health. The most apparent (direct) health risks derive from extreme events, particularly heatwaves, storms, cyclones, fires, droughts, and floods. In the medium to longer-term, however, the wider spectrum of health consequences (indirect) as a result of climate change will encompass shifting patterns of infectious disease, changes in regional food yields, health consequences of diminished water flows and quality, and deterioration of ambient air quality, particularly in urban areas. Compounding the physical impacts of climate change are myriad psychosocial impacts, which have detrimental effects on human wellbeing. In spite of general awareness that climate change can affect public health and wellbeing, there is an urgent need to increase our understanding of the diverse and wide-ranging impacts—identifying vulnerabilities that currently exist and may exist in the future. This proposed Special Issue aims to highlight the challenges and solutions to climate change influences on health and wellbeing in both high- and low-resource settings. The Special Issue is open to recent research papers, reviews, short communications, as well as perspectives on any subject area related to the impact of climate change on health and wellbeing. The listed key words suggest just a few of the many possibilities.
Dr. Anushree Priyadarshini
Dr. Paul Hynds
Dr. Jean O’Dwyer
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- environment
- extreme weather events
- human health
- wellbeing
- mental health
- financial burden
- infection
- epidemiology
- waterborne
- foodborne
- airborne
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