Global Change and Health By Antje Danielson – TELI 2013

Announcements TELI 2013

Library Use Mo – Th8:30 AM to 10 PM Fr8:30 AM to 5 PM Sa10 AM to 4 PM Su2 PM to 10 PM Resources and Website Film Crew

Rationale for the Week TELI 2013

Environment Health Connection Teaching Research / Tools Communication

and Planetary Limits Environmental Change

Climate change Changing rainfall Storm water Destruction of infrastructure Loss of crops  Under-nourishment Impact on vectors  Vector-borne disease Drought Crop failure  Malnutrition Flooding Access to clean water  Water borne disease Sealevel rise Salt infiltration in coastal areas Heat waves  Increased mortality

Ocean acidification Harmful algae bloom (HAB)  Poisoning  Skin disease Stratospheric ozone depletion  Skin cancer Nitrogen and phosphorus cycle N in air and water  Respiratory disease  Cardiovascular disease  Seasonal allergies  Blue baby disease  Vector borne diseases

Biodiversity loss Ecosystem services loss  Loss in potential cures Chemical pollution Global freshwater use  Cancer  Autoimmune system responses Atmospheric aerosol loading  Asthma  Pulmonary disease Land use change Pressure on ecosystems  Zoonotic disease

Finding Just Solutions

It is the world's poor, who bear the biggest disease burdens, and can expect soaring rates of ill health. This increase will come partly from shifting population dynamics, as people flee flooded coasts or searing deserts for more habitable areas, or from a rise in diseases carried by insects, such as mosquitoes or ticks, with 'vectors' influenced by environmental change, or by violence and crisis due to population pressures, or from the pollution of natural resources critical to human and animal health.

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