OPINION – I read this week was the World Environment Day. What is today? Is it good for something, or is more political than anything else?
- Serves to remind us to improve the quality of the environment in which we live, and therefore our health, is a matter for everyone, as we can and should participate.
- Is there climate change? How health affects our climate change?
- The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), the top world authority on the subject, says in its latest report that “warming is unequivocal”, as evidenced by changes observed in many natural systems on all continents and oceans , among which the temperatures rise. In terms of health we can identify the following main effects:
1 .- Increase in average temperatures, days with very high temperatures and heat waves. When temperatures exceed 29 or 30 degrees, also increases mortality, which particularly affects people with chronic diseases such as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, or with some degree of disability (AD for example).
2 .- Secondly, changes in the flora, since it will produce a greater amount of allergens and more days per year with a high concentration of allergens, particularly pollen.
3 .- Third, the temperature and air pollution are increased, and therefore, in urban areas where pollution levels are higher for the heavy traffic will increase diseases like heart attacks or asthma. (more…)
