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:	Horacio Riojas-Rodríguez, María Laura Quezada-Jiménez, Pamela Zúñiga-Bello, Magali Hurtado-Díaz
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Ubiquity Press 2018
Materias:	Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/cf2771257bb9499a889c94aa2334661e
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:cf2771257bb9499a889c94aa2334661e2021-12-02T04:02:28ZClimate Change and Potential Health Effects in Mexican Children2214-999610.29024/aogh.915https://doaj.org/article/cf2771257bb9499a889c94aa2334661e2018-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://annalsofglobalhealth.org/articles/915https://doaj.org/toc/2214-9996Climate 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.Horacio Riojas-RodríguezMaría Laura Quezada-JiménezPamela Zúñiga-BelloMagali Hurtado-DíazUbiquity PressarticleInfectious and parasitic diseasesRC109-216Public aspects of medicineRA1-1270ENAnnals of Global Health, Vol 84, Iss 2, Pp 281-284 (2018)
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topic	Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270
spellingShingle	Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 Horacio Riojas-Rodríguez María Laura Quezada-Jiménez Pamela Zúñiga-Bello Magali Hurtado-Díaz Climate Change and Potential Health Effects in Mexican Children
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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author	Horacio Riojas-Rodríguez María Laura Quezada-Jiménez Pamela Zúñiga-Bello Magali Hurtado-Díaz
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title	Climate Change and Potential Health Effects in Mexican Children
title_short	Climate Change and Potential Health Effects in Mexican Children
title_full	Climate Change and Potential Health Effects in Mexican Children
title_fullStr	Climate Change and Potential Health Effects in Mexican Children
title_full_unstemmed	Climate Change and Potential Health Effects in Mexican Children
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publisher	Ubiquity Press
publishDate	2018
url	https://doaj.org/article/cf2771257bb9499a889c94aa2334661e
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Climate Change and Potential Health Effects in Mexican Children

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