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Journal of the Forestry (Šumarski list), Vol. 145 No. 1-2, 2021.

Review article

https://doi.org/10.31298/sl.145.1-2.6

Public health perspective of the impact of industrial pollution on global warming and the incidence of zoonoses

Toni Buterin orcid id orcid.org/0000-0003-0725-1008 ; Sveučilište u Rijeci, Medicinski fakultet
Robert Doričić orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-4948-956X ; Sveučilište u Rijeci, Medicinski fakultet
Igor Eterović orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-2232-0289 ; Sveučilište u Rijeci, Medicinski fakultet
Amir Muzur orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-9770-6733 ; Sveučilište u Rijeci, Medicinski fakultet/Fakultet zdravstvenih studija
Marina Šantić ; Sveučilište u Rijeci, Medicinski fakultet

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Abstract

Although the impact of climate change on humans and the environment has long been known, less importance is given to diseases that enter the epidemiological gateway by secondary means. Zoonoses thus belong to a group of diseases whose increasing incidence can be associated with climate change and the creation of conditions for their spread.
This review of the literature revealed a growing awareness of the potential consequences of the possible occurrence of zoonoses caused by global warming, but despite this in Croatia such research were not recognized (yet).
With the hypothesis that climate change and global warming caused by industrial pollution and anthropogenic factors may cause a higher incidence of zoonoses, preventive solutions are offered which, with timely detection and epidemiological interventions, do not necessarily affect the occurrence of zoonoses.
What is more likely that we should not neglect is that climate change creates preconditions for different routes of transmission and spread of zoonoses, which, if the negative trend of global warming continues, could eventually affect incidence and prevalence of zoonoses – certainly in Croatia as well which from a public health problem outgrow into a global environmental-ethical problem.

Keywords

Global warming; Climate change; Zoonoses; Industrial pollution; Anthropogenic factors; (environmental) ethics

Hrčak ID:

252960

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/252960

Publication date:

28.2.2021.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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