Health Security in the Context of Climate Change and Its Impact on Environmental Refugees

Human health security is one of the important issues that international research institutions have been focusing on. This kind of human security has been affected by the effects of climate change over the past two decades. One of the consequences of climate change on the health of people is the development and spread of contagious diseases. In the absence of the prevention of these diseases, the international community will see in the near future a wider range of them. The research methodology of this paper is descriptive and based on documentary analysis. In this research, health security has been evaluated as one of the factors of environmental asylum. Findings suggest that reducing health security or lack of it may have the potential of exposing people exposed to these threats as demographic displacement and the emergence of environmental asylum. Protecting people who are in danger of displacement and environmental refugee in the face of such risks are on the agenda of several international instruments, all of which are based on fundamental human rights. Please cite this article as: Alekajbaf H, Khadimi M, Jalalian A, Arshadi M. Health Security in the Context of Climate Change and Its Impact on Environmental Refugees. Iran J Med Law 2020; 13(51): 39-64.