Arredondo-Hernandez, R.; Lopez Vidal, Y.; Martínez-Cruz, K.; Ponce, S. Climate Change in the Sun and Shadow: Stories about the Margin. Fortune Journal of Health Sciences 2024, 07, doi:10.26502/fjhs.187.
Arredondo-Hernandez, R.; Lopez Vidal, Y.; Martínez-Cruz, K.; Ponce, S. Climate Change in the Sun and Shadow: Stories about the Margin. Fortune Journal of Health Sciences 2024, 07, doi:10.26502/fjhs.187.
Arredondo-Hernandez, R.; Lopez Vidal, Y.; Martínez-Cruz, K.; Ponce, S. Climate Change in the Sun and Shadow: Stories about the Margin. Fortune Journal of Health Sciences 2024, 07, doi:10.26502/fjhs.187.
Arredondo-Hernandez, R.; Lopez Vidal, Y.; Martínez-Cruz, K.; Ponce, S. Climate Change in the Sun and Shadow: Stories about the Margin. Fortune Journal of Health Sciences 2024, 07, doi:10.26502/fjhs.187.
Abstract
The global warming our generation is experiencing is just one of the great environmental crises of the Anthropocene, a geological period that began with the use of fossil fuels and that, in merely one century and a few decades of industrial activity, has altered ecosystemic processes that sustain human health and well-being. Beyond the loss of the “intrinsic value of nature”, changes in the magnitude and direction of biogeochemical cycles and increases in temperature are phenomena that not only accompany the loss of habitats and species but impair resilience by ultimately generating greater and more complex numbers and types of exposures that constitute a danger to human health.
In this study, we attempted to offer some notes about the margin, understood as that space with the greatest inequity and therefore the fastest growth of risk: the collision area where deprivation marks the social determinants of health and where the greatest interaction with causes of disease occur.
Keywords
Global warming; inequity and resilience; emerging infectious disease; human niche
Subject
Public Health and Healthcare, Public, Environmental and Occupational Health
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