South Asia Grosses Health Uncertainty
To ensure health security under unavoidable climate change in the 1.5°C–2°C global warming pathway has already made Asia’sstatus challenging owing to the disruption of the functioning ecosystem and manifold uncertainties.In their recent report, titled “A Region at Risk: The Human Dimensions of Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific,” has highlighted the death rates, temperature rise, and heatwaves, the pattern of rainfall, record number of flooding, agriculture biodiversity would lead to drastic changes in the region’s fate.Therefore, these key indicators demand a focus on the status of health hazards in this region to realize that overall health concerns are greatly affected by the adverse effects of climate change. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 150 000 deaths occur worldwide in low-income countries every year owing to the adverse effects of climate change, crop failure and malnutrition, floods, diarrheal diseases and malaria, where India, Pakistan, ...