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Climate Change-related Ilnesses on the Rise, Warn Australian Doctors
April 07, 2008 at 12:46 PM
Environmental Health
The Doctors for the Environment Australia report found that over the next decade, the health of children and the elderly would be most at risk from rising temperatures.
"In 2020, it is likely that Australian doctors and other health professionals will be seeing patients with a diverse range of climate change-related illnesses," the group, which aims to raise awareness about the health impacts of global warming, said in its report.
"These include heat stress, other heat-related illness events (affecting the heart, blood vessels and lungs), trauma from extreme weather events, and more allergic diseases."
Meanwhile, greater air pollution would increase respiratory illnesses and higher temperatures could raise the risk of some infectious diseases such as gastroenteritis and mosquito-borne ailments such as Dengue Fever.
Forecasters predict Australia will experience more extreme weather events, such as droughts, fires, floods and storms due to global warming.
And while warming in Australia will be in line with global projections, it will be starting from a hotter base.
"Climate change is already a reality in our waiting rooms and surgeries -- and is set to become a key challenge for our health system over the coming decade," the report's co-author Dr. Graeme Horton said.
"Clearly, climate change will place our health system under increasing stress -- and as always the elderly, children and the vulnerable will be hardest hit."
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