A look at how climate change is harming human health

A Canadian woman has become the world’s first patient to be diagnosed with ‘climate change’. Not long ago, WHO called climate change the “single biggest health threat facing humanity”. Take a look at how global warming is harming human health and wellbeing. (Image: News18 Creative)

World’s first climate change patient was diagnosed with an underlying condition of asthma soon after the heatwaves struck the country earlier this year in June. (Image: News18 Creative)

Health professionals worldwide are already noticing the health harms caused by climate change. (Image: News18 Creative)

A look at how even a small rise in temperature affects the planet (impact by 2100). (Image: News18 Creative)

Climate-sensitive health risks. (Image: News18 Creative)

Over 930 million people (around 12 percent of the world’s population) spend at least 10 percent of their household budget to pay for health care. (Image: News18 Creative)

Here’s the health costs of climate change. (Image: News18 Creative)