Tham khảo tài liệu 'international perspectives on global environmental change part 3', khoa học tự nhiên, công nghệ sinh học phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Climate Change and Health Effects 49 borne illness and food insecurity both likely outcomes of climate change may lead to malnutrition. While adult humans exposed to mild famine usually recover quite well when food again becomes plentiful nutritional reductions to a fetus in the womb appear to have lasting effects throughout life. Climate change effects on food availability and nutritional content could have a marked multigenerational effect on human development. Certain commercial chemicals present in storage sites or hazardous waste sites can alter human development. Flooding from extreme weather events and sea-level rise are likely to result in the release of some of these chemicals and heavy metals most likely affecting drinking and recreational waters. Some of these including mercury and lead have known negative developmental effects IWGCCH . 8. Cancer Since last 30 years there has been concern that anthropogenic damage to the earth s stratospheric ozone layer will lead to an increase of solar ultraviolet UV radiation reaching the earth s surface with a consequent adverse impact on human health especially to the skin. More recently there has been an increased awareness of the interactions between ozone depletion and climate change global warming which could also impact on human exposure to terrestrial UV. The most serious effect of changing UV exposure of human skin is the potential rise in incidence of skin cancers. Climate change which is predicted to lead to an increased frequency of extreme temperature events and high summer temperatures. This could impact on human UV exposure by encouraging people to spend more time in the sun. While future social trends remain uncertain it is likely that over this century behavior associated with climate change rather than ozone depletion will be the largest determinant of sun exposure and consequent impact on skin cancer Diffey 2004 . 9. Mental health Climate change has potential to influence mental health and .
