Emerging Threats to Human Health from Global Environmental Change

Emerging Infectious Diseases: Threats to Human Health and Global Stability

The inevitable, but unpredictable, appearance of new infectious diseases has been recognized for millennia, well before the discovery of causative infectious agents. Today, however, despite extraordinary advances in development of countermeasures (diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines), the ease of world travel and increased global interdependence have added layers of complexity to containing...

Global Environmental Change and Human Health.

Global warming and its effect on the environmental human health

Earth's ecosystem has been active for millions of years without particular problems and may lead the development of variety of animal species around the world.

Emerging threats to public health from regional trade agreements.

The decision by Australia’s High Court to uphold the constitutionality of the country’s ground-breaking tobacco plain packaging laws has been heralded as a victory for national sovereignty over vested interests. However, the ability of governments worldwide to introduce and im plement public health policies and laws is increasingly threatened by trade and investment treaties that privilege inve...

Environmental health implications of global climate change.

This paper reviews the background that has led to the now almost-universally held opinion in the scientific community that global climate change is occurring and is inescapably linked with anthropogenic activity. The potential implications to human health are considerable and very diverse. These include, for example, the increased direct impacts of heat and of rises in sea level, exacerbated ai...