Climate change, water resources and child health

2010

Authors

• Elizabeth J. Kristin Duke University Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
• John Fogarty The University of New Mexico Department of Family Medicine
• Ryan Shaening Pokrasso New Energy Economy
• Michael McCally Mount Sinai School of Medicine Department of Preventive Medicine
• Peter G. McCornick Duke University Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions

Description

Climate change is occurring and has tremendous consequences for children's health worldwide. This article describes how the rise in temperature, precipitation, droughts, floods, glacier melt and sea levels resulting from human-induced climate change is affecting the quantity, quality and flow of water resources worldwide and impacting child health through dangerous effects on water supply and sanitation, food production and human migration. It argues that paediatricians and healthcare professionals have a critical leadership role to play in motivating and sustaining efforts for policy change and programme implementation at the local, national and international level.

Archives of Disease in Childhood volume 95 pages 545-549

DOI : 10.1136/adc.2009.175307

Cited by chapter 9,chapter 6, and usgcrp-climate-human-health-assessment-2016. (reference: 908fa929)