Sentences with phrase «indirect impacts on health»

Climate change is expected to have a broad range of direct and indirect impacts on health this century.

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What counts is the impact on the reduction of vaccine - preventable disease incidence through direct and indirect protection, which is particularly pertinent for diseases that are of high public health importance.

However, the indirect effects of climate change on forests, such as changing wildfire and beetle outbreak severity, are already having a large impact on the health of Montana's forests and in some instances these impacts are easier to predict.

So far, all of the criteria air pollutants under the agency's purview — substances from lead to sulfur dioxide — have a direct impact on human health and welfare, while risks from the carbon dioxide's buildup remain indirect, through the rising influence on climate.

The concern is with direct impacts on fish and aquatic life, via wastewater discharges, as well as indirect impacts on human human health.

The document presents the potential impacts climate change may have on human health and analyses the various direct and indirect impacts that climate change will have on African populations.

3) indirect impacts mediated through societal systems, such as undernutrition and mental illness from altered agricultural production and food insecurity, stress and undernutrition and violent conflict caused by population displacement, economic losses due to widespread «heat exhaustion» impacts on the workforce, or other environmental stressors, and damage to health care systems by extreme weather events.

This is because these are closely related to MDGs performance due to indirect impacts on governments» expanding revenues, and direct impacts on increased incomes for poor households to invest in nutrition, health and education.

«Potential climate risks in other parts of the world are thought to be much greater than those directly affecting the U.K., but could have a significant indirect impact here... on global health, political stability and international supply chains,» the report said.

Given the impacts on indirect deaths I believe that increased heating cost will adversely affect mortality if low income people can not afford to keep their homes warm enough to prevent potential health impacts of cold weather.