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Climate Change and Potential Health Effects in Mexican Children

Climate change (CC) is the most important challenge of our time, a long-term global problem and one of the most serious global threats to human health in the future. CC is the expression of changes in temperature and water cycle, floods and drought events, extreme heat waves and sea level rise. Chil...

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Autores principales: Riojas-Rodríguez, Horacio, Quezada-Jiménez, María Laura, Zúñiga-Bello, Pamela, Hurtado-Díaz, Magali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Levy Library Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6748264/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30873791
http://dx.doi.org/10.29024/aogh.915
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author Riojas-Rodríguez, Horacio
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description Climate change (CC) is the most important challenge of our time, a long-term global problem and one of the most serious global threats to human health in the future. CC is the expression of changes in temperature and water cycle, floods and drought events, extreme heat waves and sea level rise. Children are particularly vulnerable because they are highly sensitive to climate changes. The main environmental hazards affecting children’s health are poor household drinking water quality and availability, lack access to adequate sanitary facilities, poor hygiene practices, outdoor and indoor air pollution, vector-borne diseases, chemical hazards, and unintentional injuries. Except for some unintentional injuries, these environmental hazards are associated to CC.
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spelling pubmed-67482642019-09-17 Climate Change and Potential Health Effects in Mexican Children Riojas-Rodríguez, Horacio Quezada-Jiménez, María Laura Zúñiga-Bello, Pamela Hurtado-Díaz, Magali Ann Glob Health Viewpoint Climate change (CC) is the most important challenge of our time, a long-term global problem and one of the most serious global threats to human health in the future. CC is the expression of changes in temperature and water cycle, floods and drought events, extreme heat waves and sea level rise. Children are particularly vulnerable because they are highly sensitive to climate changes. The main environmental hazards affecting children’s health are poor household drinking water quality and availability, lack access to adequate sanitary facilities, poor hygiene practices, outdoor and indoor air pollution, vector-borne diseases, chemical hazards, and unintentional injuries. Except for some unintentional injuries, these environmental hazards are associated to CC. Levy Library Press 2018-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6748264/ /pubmed/30873791 http://dx.doi.org/10.29024/aogh.915 Text en Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6748264/
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