Assessment Task 3: Major Essay: Policy analysis Background For this assessment task, students will analyse the development, advocacy and implementation of a contemporary health policy. In analysing...

Running Head: HEALTHCARE
Climate Change-Implication for health
Introduction
As per the global report released from leading medical journal, there is strong connection between climate change and human health. The climate change is perceived as the ‘biggest global health threat of the 21st century’. It, therefore, calls for strong climate strategy and action from health bodies and medical professionals. In 2017, World Health Organisation (WHO) warned and signalled health care professionals of Australia to blow their voice louder as country could no longer ‘sleepwalk or escape from this health emergency in the coming time period’. With respect to this, several leading health bodies of Australia called political parties to recognise and infer significant and profound health impacts of climate change on country’s people, as a whole (Country Summary: Australia, 2019).
Nature and size of the problem
Climate change is the result of human activities, which were left unchecked or unattended. Human emissions of greenhouse gases are increasing continuously since past few years, and, it has made strong fold increase in 21st century. The annual average temperatures of the country have increased from 0.4 to 2.0 since 1990 and expected to increase around 6.0 degree by the end of 2030 (Willis, 2019). Meanwhile, it is also found that Australia’s coastlines experienced erosion and inundation caused significant rise in the global sea level. This rise in the global sea level has strong negative implications on country’s environment, economy and public health.
Climate change in the country is determined by number of variables including temperatures, rainfall and others. According to the report published by Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), climate change causes strong and severe impact on the public health. The climate change cause rise in temperature which results in southward spread of malaria across receptive zones, rise in dengue fever among country’s people from 0.17 million to 0.75-1.6 million. Also, there is 10% increase in the cases of diarrhoeal diseases faced among Aboriginal children located at Central Australia, also increased influx of refugees (Willis, 2019). The increasing incidences of climate change and crisis experienced among Australians necessitate public health officials and government authorities to plan and implement strong policy health measures and action plans.
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