Wennman Heini, Partonen Timo
Equality Unit, Department of Public Health and Welfare, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland.
Scand J Public Health. 2025 Mar;53(2):184-194. doi: 10.1177/14034948231216909. Epub 2023 Dec 23.
Climate change threatens health directly as well as indirectly through impacts on health-related behaviors. Physical activity, nutrition and sleep are key health-related behaviors for population health. We aimed at elucidating the impacts of climate change which emerge gradually on these three key health-related behaviors, particularly focusing on scenarios and projections relevant to people living in the northern Europe.
We conducted a systematic literature search in three different databases in January 2023 to identify English language review articles summarizing the effects of climate change on either physical activity, nutrition, sleep, or their combination.
We identified 15 review articles on the topic. Data on climate change impacts on nutrition and sleep were sparse, and those on physical activity were heterogeneous. The climate in northern Europe will become warmer and sunnier in summer as well as warmer and darker in winter, which will probably increase the level of physical activity, but decrease the consumption of fruits and vegetables, as well as increase the occurrence of sleep disturbances in a population.
The anticipated changes in physical activity, nutrition and sleep driven by climate change influence population health and call for grass-roots action plans for adaptation.
气候变化不仅直接威胁健康，还通过对与健康相关行为的影响间接威胁健康。身体活动、营养和睡眠是影响人群健康的关键健康相关行为。我们旨在阐明气候变化对这三种关键健康相关行为逐渐产生的影响，尤其关注与北欧居民相关的情景和预测。
2023年1月，我们在三个不同的数据库中进行了系统的文献检索，以查找总结气候变化对身体活动、营养、睡眠或其综合影响的英文综述文章。
我们找到了15篇关于该主题的综述文章。关于气候变化对营养和睡眠影响的数据稀少，而关于身体活动的数据则参差不齐。北欧夏季气候将变得更温暖、阳光更充足，冬季则更温暖、天色更暗，这可能会增加身体活动水平，但减少水果和蔬菜的消费量，并增加人群中睡眠障碍的发生率。
气候变化导致的身体活动、营养和睡眠方面的预期变化影响人群健康，需要制定基层适应行动计划。
