TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dhimal, Meghnath
A1  - Bhandari, Dinesh
A1  - Lamichhane Dhimal, Mandira
A1  - Kafle, Naviya
A1  - Pyakurel, Prajjwal
A1  - Mahotra, Narayan
A1  - Akhtar, Saeed
A1  - Ismail, Tariq
A1  - Dhiman, Ramesh C.
A1  - Groneberg, Jan David Alexander
A1  - Shrestha, Uttam Babu
A1  - Müller, Ruth
T1  - Impact of climate change on health and well-being of people in Hindu Kush Himalayan region: a narrative review
T2  - Frontiers in physiology
N2  - Climate change and variability affect virtually everyone and every region of the world but the effects are nowhere more prominent than in mountain regions and people living therein. The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is a vast expanse encompassing 18% of the world’s mountainous area. Sprawling over 4.3 million km2, the HKH region occupies areas of eight countries namely Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar, and Pakistan. The HKH region is warming at a rate higher than the global average and precipitation has also increased significantly over the last 6 decades along with increased frequency and intensity of some extreme events. Changes in temperature and precipitation have affected and will like to affect the climate-dependent sectors such as hydrology, agriculture, biodiversity, and human health. This paper aims to document how climate change has impacted and will impact, health and well-being of the people in the HKH region and offers adaptation and mitigation measures to reduce the impacts of climate change on health and well-being of the people. In the HKH region, climate change boosts infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), malnutrition, and injuries. Hence, climate change adaptation and mitigation measures are needed urgently to safeguard vulnerable populations residing in the HKH region.
KW  - climate change
KW  - health
KW  - mountain
KW  - non-communicable disease
KW  - infectious disease
KW  - mental health
KW  - gender
KW  - disasters
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62452
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-624520
SN  - 1664-042X
VL  - 12
IS  - art. 651189
SP  - 1
EP  - 13
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -