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Climate Health Burdens
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The Big Picture
Climate change is increasingly treated as a direct and systemic health threat, including extreme heat, humid heat, wildfire smoke, allergies, infectious disease risk, water insecurity, and health-system strain. The issue also includes recurring heat-related adaptation and exposure burdens such as heat-health alerts, cooling access, labor and school disruption, and safety at sports, transport, and mass-gathering venues.
Health impacts translate climate risk into mortality, labor loss, public expenditure, emergency planning, and equity concerns. Vulnerable populations, outdoor workers, children, older adults, and people without cooling are repeatedly exposed first and worst.
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Impacts & Risks, Adaptation & Resilience, Social, Equity & Justice Dimensions, Climate Science & Attribution, Policy, Regulation & Governance
Keywords
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