How climate change affects our health with direct effects part 1

Climate change is currently the greatest threat to human health and can manifest itself in different ways.

All the direct effects have already been experienced by different population groups. In recent decades there has been an increase in all of them and they are expected to continue to grow:

Mortality due to rising temperatures: the increase in temperatures around the globe is causing deaths in the hottest areas or in the population at risk. Also, people who live in homes with infrastructures worse equipped for heat waves are being affected, for example, by insomnia.

Loss of life due to natural disasters: the increase in high-intensity storms, cyclones, etc., kills hundreds and thousands of people every year. The main factors are geography and poverty, since it is the least protected environments and the most exposed rural areas, which bear the brunt.

Increase in respiratory diseases: pollution levels rise every year, especially in the main cities of the world, where there are more and more inhabitants. For this reason, respiratory diseases increase every year, as well as conditions such as allergies