Monday, April 21, 2008

Relation Climate Change on Health

Indonesia government was launch a campaign to protect and secure natural resources, climate change is seriously affecting Indonesian health and becomes a burden on the national health system.

Climate change was directly affecting people’s health, there are more disease outbreaks and other problems due to the imbalance of the ecosystem and climate change also contribute to natural disaster such as heat waves, floods, drought and changing temperatures and precipitation might also increase outbreaks of sensitive diseases such as dengue, malaria, malnutrition and diarrhea as well.

So the efforts to improve basic sanitation facilities are needed in dealing with immediate and future health consequences and the availability of clean water supplies also could prevent infectious diseases and secure food production.

Many potential health problems could be controlled through health system interventions, including disease surveillance, disaster preparedness and primary healthcare.

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