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How can changes in climatic conditions threaten public health?

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How can changes in climatic conditions threaten public health?

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The behavior of individuals at all levels – political leaders, policy-makers, military commanders, public health specialists and the general population – can have major health consequences, both negative and positive. Threats to public health security such as natural disasters, epidemics of infectious diseases, chemical and radioactive emergencies or other health events, can have one or more causes. The causes may be natural or man-made, environmental or industrial, accidental or deliberate, and in many cases related to human behaviour. Public health is undermined not only by human action but also by the lack thereof. For instance, complacency and a false sense of security can tempt governments to reduce spending on public health and to scale down prevention programmes – with potentially disastrous consequences for collective health.

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