A new report charting the effects of climate change across the Asia Pacific region has found it is also having an effect on the health of the population.
The study from Global Health Alliance Australia outlined a series of areas where the health of the region's population was being affected by changes to the climate, including reduced IQs in the children of people who have survived natural disasters, malnutrition due to declining crops and death from heatwaves.
Authors of the report, GHAA executive director Misha Coleman and professor of planetary health at the University of Sydney Anthony Capon say “primary prevention” of health effects should be “top priority.”