Climate Change, Human Health, and Social Stability: Addressing Interlinkages.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Abundant historical evidence demonstrates how environmental changes can affect social stability and, in turn, human health. A rapidly growing body of literature, largely from political science and economics, is examining the potential for and consequences associated with social instability related to current climate change. However, comparatively little of this research incorporates the effects on human health or the role of health systems in influencing the magnitude and types of instability that could occur.

Objective

The objective of this commentary is to articulate a conceptual framework incorporating health outcomes and health systems into theorized and observed linkages between climate change and social instability, illustrating in particular the health effe

SUBMITTER: Sellers S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6785235 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature