Children suffer a much greater burden of climate-related disease than adults.
According to the World Health Organization, more than 80% of the current health burden due to the changing climate occurs in children younger than five years old.
These health impacts include the broad effects of weather disasters, increases and range-shifts in climate sensitive infections, increases in allergic and asthmatic diseases, food and water insecurity and increased heat-related deaths.
In this segment of Healthy Children, Dr. Jerome A. Paulson explains how children are affected by climate change and what you can do to keep them as healthy as possible.
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Environmental Changes: Will Our Kids Suffer Most?
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