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Climate change and the projected burden of future health impacts – The Project EXHAUSTION

Der Klimawandel und seine zukünftigen Gesundheitsfolgen – Das Projekt EXHAUSTION
  • Siqi Zhang , Masna Rai , Susanne Breitner , Kristin Aunan and Alexandra Schneider EMAIL logo
From the journal Public Health Forum

Abstract

Climate change, foreseen to cause adverse effects on human health, is an emerging global public health threat. Several studies have projected an increasing burden of health effects in the future as a result of global warming. Nevertheless, research in this field is comparatively young and so far there are no concrete answers about the future climate change related health impacts. This article discusses existing research gaps and introduces the EU project EXHAUSTION which aims to fill at least some of them.

Zusammenfassung

Der Klimawandel wird voraussichtlich einen negativen Einfluss auf die menschliche Gesundheit haben und zeichnet sich als eine globale Bedrohung der öffentlichen Gesundheit ab. Mehrere Studien haben prognostiziert, dass die gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen durch die globale Erwärmung in Zukunft zunehmen werden. Dennoch ist die Forschung auf diesem Gebiet vergleichsweise jung und es scheint bisher keine konkreten Aussagen zu den zukünftigen klimabedingten Gesundheitsauswirkungen zu geben. Dieser Artikel diskutiert bestehende Forschungslücken und stellt das EU-Projekt EXHAUSTION vor, das darauf abzielt, zumindest einige davon zu schließen.


*Correspondence: Dr. Alexandra Schneider, MPH, Research Group Leader “Environmental Risks”, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Neuherberg

Acknowledgement

The project EXHAUSTION has received funding from the Europeans Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the grant agreement number 820655.

  1. Author Declaration

  2. Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission. Funding: The project EXHAUSTION has received funding from the Europeans Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the grant agreement number 820655. Conflict of interest: Authors state no conflict of interest. Ethical statement: Primary data for human or for animals were not collected for this research work.

  3. Autorenerklärung

    Autorenbeteiligung: Alle Autoren tragen Verantwortung für den gesamten Inhalt dieses Artikels und haben der Einreichung des Manuskripts zugestimmt. Finanzierung: Das Projekt EXHAUSTION wurde durch das EU-Förderprogramm Horizon 2020 unter der Nummer 820655 gefördert. Interessenkonflikt: Die Autoren erklären, dass kein wirtschaftlicher oder persönlicher Interessenkonflikt vorliegt. Ethisches Statement: Für die Forschungsarbeit wurden weder von Menschen noch von Tieren Primärdaten erhoben.

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Published Online: 2020-02-29
Published in Print: 2020-03-26

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