Does the climate influence the illnesses?

When a scientist or an investigator decides to investigate, so many his things come to the mind that they could have relation that, to more of one he would surprise the results that are obtained. One of these studies is the one that the magazine Science publishes and that raises, in certain way, the following question: does the climate influence the illnesses? This health blog tells you more details.

It is a question of a study carried out by the University of Washington in which there appear the possible incidences that the climate change will generate in a next future.

One of the principal ideas that get rid of this study is that, at the end of the century and as a result of the climate change and of the changes of temperature, alterations will take place in the harvests (especially of tropical zones) that will reverberate in a water as food shortage.

Immediately after this and although it surprises, the WHO has requested that includes the environment inside the health politics. On the other hand, and as it gets rid of I European Congress on Environmental Pathologies - celebrated in Rouen, France - it is estimated that close to 24 % of the pathologies and of the deaths that take place they are related to the environment.

Also, as a result of the increase of temperatures foreseen at the end of century, of between 2 and 6 grades, one hopes that the deaths should climb on a global scale between a 1 and 4 % for every grade of temperature that is promoted.

But really: does the climate influence the illnesses? Every time with more frequency the natural disasters and the consequences of the climate change affect to the areas in which they take place, generating infections, pandemics, respiratory problems, scarcity and worsening of the food, cardiovascular diseases, pollution, increase of the allergic pathologies, increase of the cancers, etc.

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