Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, and Human Health Implications in the Asia Pacific Region
Hashim, Jamal H. and Hashim, Zailina, (2016). Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, and Human Health Implications in the Asia Pacific Region. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 28(2), 8-14
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Hashim, ZailinaTitle Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, and Human Health Implications in the Asia Pacific Region Appearing in Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health Check publisher's open access policy Volume 28 Issue No. 2 Publication Date 2016-03 Place of Publication Thousand Oaks, CA Publisher Sage Publications Start page 8 End page 14 Language eng Abstract The Asia Pacific region is regarded as the most disaster-prone area of the world. Since 2000, 1.2 billion people have been exposed to hydrometeorological hazards alone through 1215 disaster events. The impacts of climate change on meteorological phenomena and environmental consequences are well documented. However, the impacts on health are more elusive. Nevertheless, climate change is believed to alter weather patterns on the regional scale, giving rise to extreme weather events. The impacts from extreme weather events are definitely more acute and traumatic in nature, leading to deaths and injuries, as well as debilitating and fatal communicable diseases. Extreme weather events include heat waves, cold waves, floods, droughts, hurricanes, tropical cyclones, heavy rain, and snowfalls. Globally, within the 20-year period from 1993 to 2012, more than 530 000 people died as a direct result of almost 15 000 extreme weather events, with losses of more than US$2.5 trillion in purchasing power parity. UNBIS Thesaurus ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
CLIMATE CHANGEKeyword health impacts
Extreme weather eventsCopyright Holder Asia Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health Copyright Year 2016 Copyright type All rights reserved ISSN 1010-5395 DOI 10.1177/1010539515599030 -
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