Division of Pulmonary, Department of Medicine, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, 100 Woodruff Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Division of Pulmonary, Department of Medicine, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, 100 Woodruff Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA; Atlanta VA Medical Center, Decatur, GA, USA.
Clin Chest Med. 2023 Sep;44(3):489-499. doi: 10.1016/j.ccm.2023.03.005. Epub 2023 May 9.
Climate change will alter environmental risks that influence pulmonary health, including heat, air pollution, and pollen. These exposures disproportionately burden populations already at risk of ill health, including those at vulnerable life stages, with low socioeconomic status, and systematically targeted by oppressive policies. Climate change can exacerbate existing environmental injustices by affecting future exposure, as well as through differentials in the ability to adapt; this is compounded by disparities in rates of underlying disease and access to health care. Climate change is therefore a dire threat not only to individual and population health but also to health equity.
气候变化将改变影响肺部健康的环境风险，包括热、空气污染和花粉。这些暴露使已经处于健康风险中的人群，包括处于脆弱生命阶段、社会经济地位较低以及受到压迫性政策有针对性影响的人群，承受了不成比例的负担。气候变化可以通过影响未来的暴露以及适应能力的差异来加剧现有的环境不公平现象，而这又因潜在疾病的发病率和获得医疗保健的机会的差异而更加复杂。因此，气候变化不仅对个人和人口健康构成严重威胁，而且对健康公平也构成严重威胁。
