The diagram shows specific examples of how climate change can affect human health, now and in the future. These effects could occur at local, regional, or national scales. Moving from left to right along one health impact row, the three middle columns show how climate drivers affect an individual's or a community's exposure to a health threat and the resulting change in health outcome. The overall climate impact is summarized in the final gray column.
Reproduced from: The impacts of climate change on human health in the United States: A scientific assessment. U.S. Global Change Research Program. https://health2016.globalchange.gov/ (Accessed on July 26, 2024).
