Health in the Amazon: Environmental, Social and Economic Challenges
Abstract
KeY meSSageS (i) environmental degradation increases Health risks: Environmental degradation in the Amazon (deforestation, mining, illegal logging, forest fires, unsustainable infrastructure development, crop monoculture, among others) directly increases health risks that exacerbate the susceptibility of local populations to a suite of conditions including, but not limited to, food insecurity, respiratory, cardiovascular, and infectious diseases. (ii) Climate Change Intensifies Health Impacts:The Amazon faces a four-fold burden of climate change, biodiversity loss, ecosystem pollution, and deforestation, threatening health of Amazonian people through extreme temperatures, forest fires, land and water pollution, siltation of rivers (especially due to the use of intensive and extensive agrochemicals), droughts, floods, increased mercury loads in aquatic ecosystems, among others.
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