Module Components

• Overview
• Assignments

Topics

• Climate Change and Human Health
• Temperature-Related Death and Illness
• Air Quality
• Extreme Events

NURS418 - Climate Change - Evidence and Solutions

Module 3: Climate Change and Health I

Climate Change and Human Health

Exposure to health hazards related to climate change affects different people and different communities to different degrees. While often assessed individually, exposure to multiple climate change threats can occur simultaneously, resulting in compounding or cascading health impacts.

Climate change can affect human health in two main ways: first, by changing the severity or frequency of health problems that are already affected by climate or weather factors; and second, by creating unprecedented or unanticipated health problems or health threats in places where they have not previously occurred.