Abstract
Nepal is one of the climate change prone countries in the world. Geophysical and socioeconomic condition of country have predetermined vulnerability of the country to drought, earthquake, epidemic, fire, flood, forest fire, land slide and other climate related events affecting human and animal health, injuries, and quality of life. In light of such a situation we aimed to review knowledge related to potential health impacts of climate change on population of Nepal. Literature search using major public health, environmental and social databases as well as international reports was completed the get an overview of existing knowledge. There is a little published knowledge related to potential health impacts of climate change on population of Nepal. However, the knowledge of relationship between climate change and health and knowledge of environment allow discussing main routes of potential impact as well as health effects is a crucial issue to explore. More direct, population based research would be necessary to provide sound knowledge for emergency planning and mitigation measures.
Highlights
Climate change is one of the biggest global health challenges of the 21st century [1] and a growing public health threat [2]
Geophysical and socioeconomic condition of country have predetermined vulnerability of the country to drought, earthquake, epidemic, fire, flood, forest fire, land slide and other climate related events affecting human and animal health, injuries, and quality of life. In light of such a situation we aimed to review knowledge related to potential health impacts of climate change on population of Nepal
There is a little published knowledge related to potential health impacts of climate change on population of Nepal
Summary
Climate change is one of the biggest global health challenges of the 21st century [1] and a growing public health threat [2]. The number of attendant effects were already observable including an increase in global average surface temperature over the last 100 years of 0.74°C-0.18°C [6] and the prediction is that global temperature is likely to rise by 1.1 to 6.4 degree centigrade between the 1990 and 2100. This increase in temperature is likely to lead to: Rising sea level, change in the amount of precipitation, above average rainfall, melting of polar ice caps and glaciers, storms & hurricanes [5],
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