Professional paper

Climate change and the influence on health

Ksenija Zaninović ; Državni hidrometeorološki zavod, Zagreb
Marjana Gajić-Čapka ; Državni hidrometeorološki zavod, Zagreb

Abstract

The increased concentration of greenhouse gases caused by the human activities has an impact on the global warming, the highest one during the last 1000 years. The warming has been also observed in Croatia. The air temperature increased along the Croatian Adriatic coastland more than in the mainland. Summer temperature increase contributed at most to the annual increase at the coast, and the winter temperature increase over the inland. Climate change has an impact on the human health, mostly expressed in an increased mortality during heat waves, whose frequency has also increased with the global warming. Infectious diseases are especially subject to weather influence, because weather, and thereby climate changes, influence all participants in the transmission cycle – pathogens, vectors and humans.

Keywords

Climate change; health impact; infectious diseases

Hrčak ID:

30456

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/30456

Publication date:

5.3.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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