Question

Choose 1 of the 4 areas addressed in the chart below and discuss: the driver, one possible exposure, a related health outcome and impact

Climate Change and Health CLIMATE DRIVERS Increased temperatures . Extreme weather events . Sea level rise SOCIA ENVIRONMENTAL & INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT & BEHAVIORAL CONTEXT EXPOSURE PATHWAYS Land-use change Ecosystem change . Extreme heat Poor air quality Reduced food & water Age& gender Race & ethnicity Poverty Housing & infrastructure quality Changes in infectious & livestock use agents Access to care 8 community health Preexisting health HEALTH OUTCOMES conditions . Heat-related illness Cardiopulmonary illness . Food-, water-, & vector-bone disease . Mental health consequences & stress

Answer 1

The area is the behavioural context

* Access to care and community health infrastructure

Climate drivers: precipitation extremes the precipitation of the disasters like flooding, drought, rainfall has increased widely wereby causes may health issues and access to facilities as there is no resources available due to disasters.

Exposure pathway is : reduced food and water quality were by again the access to the food and other resource scarcity, wereby the food production would be into a problem due to the disasters.

Health outcome: food water and vector borne disease this occurs as the population is in a scenario wereby there are scarcity of everything, which causes the population the risk of acquiring the diseases.