MMSL 2021, 90(2):93-99 | DOI: 10.31482/mmsl.2021.010

CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN HEALTHReview article

Anna Valentová1, Vanda Bostik ORCID...2*
1 Security Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
2 Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Military Health Sciences, University of Defence, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

This paper’s aim is to provide clear basic explanation of the relationship between human health and climate change. It focuses on global warming, connecting it with the greenhouse effect and describing various effects the global warming has already had on human health. After the disclosure of other threats connected to climate change, the paper studies the history of it according to the Anthropocene concept theory. It also uses the perspective of weather extremes to explain climate change in the past and its connection to human health. Furthermore, this article focuses on the air pollution and its impact on the health of human population. Lastly, it touches on the topic of health inequalities and provides collected data and numbers for the future of climate change and human health.

Keywords: climate change; human health; global warming; air pollution; health inequalities

Received: March 6, 2021; Revised: March 30, 2021; Accepted: March 31, 2021; Prepublished online: April 15, 2021; Published: June 4, 2021  Show citation

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Valentová, A., & Bostik, V. (2021). CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN HEALTH. MMSL, 90(2), 93-99. doi: 10.31482/mmsl.2021.010
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