Global Change and Health By Antje Danielson – TELI 2013

1. Global Change and Health By Antje Danielson – TELI 2013

2. TELI 2013 Announcements

3. Library Use Mo – Th8:30 AM to 10 PM Fr 8:30 AM to 5 PM Sa 10 AM to 4 PM Su 2 PM to 10 PM Resources and Website http://sites.tufts.edu/teli2013/ Film Crew

5. TELI 2013 Rationale for the Week

6. Environment Health Connection Teaching Research / Tools Communication

7. Environmental Change and Planetary Limits

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. Finding Just Solutions

13. 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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