Climate Change and Human Health: Understanding Environmental Change, Disease Mechanisms, Health Risks, Adaptation, and Global Clinical Practice - Softcover

VEYRON, DR. ALISTAIR

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798164303648

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

How does rising global temperature affect the human body? Why are changing weather patterns influencing infectious diseases, respiratory conditions, cardiovascular health, and public health emergencies? And how can healthcare professionals protect patients in an increasingly unpredictable environment?
Climate change is no longer just an environmental concern. It is a growing healthcare challenge that influences disease patterns, patient safety, community wellbeing, and the ability of healthcare systems to deliver effective care.
Climate Change and Human Health is a comprehensive, clinically focused medical textbook that connects environmental science with human physiology, disease mechanisms, clinical assessment, public health, and healthcare adaptation.
Designed for medical students, nursing students, allied health professionals, clinicians, public health practitioners, and healthcare educators, this book transforms complex environmental-health concepts into clear, practical, and professionally relevant knowledge.
FROM ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE TO REAL-WORLD CLINICAL PRACTICE
Organized into 25 carefully structured chapters across five comprehensive Parts, this textbook guides readers from the foundations of climate science to environmental exposures, climate-sensitive diseases, healthcare preparedness, and the future of global health.
Rather than simply listing environmental threats, it explains how climate-related changes affect the human body, why certain populations face greater risks, and how healthcare professionals can contribute to prevention, adaptation, and safer patient care.
WHAT YOU WILL DISCOVER INSIDE

• Climate Science and Human Health: Understand climate systems, greenhouse gases, environmental change, and the biological pathways connecting climate conditions to disease.
• Extreme Heat and Health Risks: Explore heat stress, dehydration, thermoregulatory failure, cardiovascular strain, and heat-related illness.
• Air Pollution and Respiratory Health: Examine wildfire smoke, airborne pollutants, respiratory inflammation, and worsening chronic respiratory conditions.
• Water, Food, and Environmental Safety: Understand flooding, water contamination, food insecurity, nutritional challenges, and associated health consequences.
• Infectious and Vector-Borne Diseases: Discover how changing temperature, rainfall, and ecosystems influence disease transmission and emerging health risks.
• Clinical Health Impacts: Explore cardiovascular complications, mental health effects, and climate-related risks affecting maternal, child, and older adult health.

MORE THAN A TEXTBOOK—A PRACTICAL LEARNING RESOURCE
Strengthen your knowledge through:

• Clear, mechanism-based explanations connecting environmental science with clinical medicine.
• Medical illustrations, educational figures, and clinical reference tables.
• Section exercises, review questions, and practical clinical scenarios.
• Five focused appendices covering climate-health terminology, disease recognition, environmental exposure assessment, healthcare resilience, and global health indicators.

Whether you are a medical or nursing student developing clinical knowledge, a healthcare professional expanding environmental-health awareness, a public health practitioner planning preventive strategies, or an educator seeking structured teaching material, this textbook provides valuable guidance for academic learning and professional development.
UNDERSTAND THE CONNECTION BETWEEN PLANETARY CHANGE AND HUMAN HEALTH
The future of healthcare requires more than treating disease after it occurs. It requires understanding environmental risks, recognizing vulnerable populations, strengthening prevention, and preparing healthcare systems for evolving challenges.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798164303648
• Einband: Copertina flessibile
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.it/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxemburg