Climate Change and Eye Disease

Eye Health and Blindness in a Hostile Environment

AvScott Fraser

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

This book examines the impact of climate change on eye disease and eye health.Filling a lacuna in the existing literature, Scott Fraser takes a deep dive into the eye diseases that are most affected by the climate crisis and explores the subsequent burden on organisations, charities and healthcare systems. Fraser begins by including short primer chapters on the basics of climate science and climate change, highlighting which environmental mechanisms directly and indirectly affect our health and why. He then looks in detail at the direct and indirect threats to eye health from climate change and examines factors including changing insect vectors, trauma from extreme weather events such as wildfires, floods and droughts, as well as the impact of crop failure, malnutrition, animal and plant migration. Highlighting the Global North vs South divide, the book goes on to consider issues around eye care, exploring the increased burden that climate-induced chronic eye diseases including cataracts, macular degeneration and nutritional eye diseases are placing on health care systems. These chapters also reflect on the ways in which eye care, ophthalmology, optometry, pharmaceutical and medical device companies all contribute to the climate footprint themselves.Unique and timely, this book will be a great resource for students and clinicians of ophthalmology, optometry and allied eye care professions, as well as climate scientists, researchers, policy makers, charities, NGOs working in related fields of environment and health.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-07-31
Mått:138 x 216 x 14 mm
Vikt:240 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Studies in Environment and Health
Antal sidor:100
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032844084

Utforska kategorier

Miljövetenskap och miljöpolitik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Folkhälsa och hälsopedagogik inom Medicin
Oftalmologi inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Scott Fraser has been an NHS doctor for 35 years and an ophthalmologist for most of them. He has been active in research during this time including in the Cochrane Collaboration. He was Visiting Professor at the University of Sunderland in the UK and the University of New England in Australia. As well as research papers he has written a number of books most recently ‘Your Health When the Climate Changes.’

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionChapter 1: Why is our climate changing and what is the cause?1.1 What is the evidence the earth is getting hotter?1.2 How do we know the Earth is getting hotter?1.3 What is causing the earth to get hotter?1.4 What are the consequences of these changes in our atmosphere?Chapter 2: How does climate change affect human health?2.1 The direct effects to human health from climate change2.2 The indirect effects to human health from climate changeChapter 3: Climate change and Eye Disease3.1 Specific Effects of Climate Change on the EyeThe EyelidsThe ConjunctivaDry EyeThe CorneaThe LensGlaucomaThe RetinaThe Uveal Tract3.2 General Effects of climate change on ocular healthTraumaInfectious DiseasesCardiovascular DiseaseNutritionInactivity, obesity and diabetesChanges in Animal BehaviourMigration, population changes and warChapter 4: Climate change and Eye Care4.1 Eye associated cancers4.2 Dry Eye Disease4.3 Cataract4.4 Age Related Macular Degeneration4.5 Infectious diseases and the eye4.6 Vitamin A deficiency4.7 Diabetic Eye Disease4.8 Glaucoma4.9 Ocular trauma4.10 Climate change and the provision of eyecare servicesChapter 5: Eye care effects upon climate change5.1 The effect of healthcare on the climate5.2 The effect of eye care on the climate5.3 Cataract surgery, climate change and sustainability5.4 Dry eye disease, eye drop use and climate change5.5 The Retina and climate change5.6 Glaucoma and climate change5.7 Optometry and climate change5.8 Practitioner awareness of climate changeChapter 6: The Burden of blindness6.1 What is blindness?6.2 Current numbers and projections6.3 The economic costs6.4 The personal costsChapter 7: Rays of hope7.1 Organisations, governments and industry7.2 Trachoma7.3 Onchocerciasis7.4 Vitamin A deficiency7.5 Diabetic Retinopathy7.6 Technology7.7 Education7.8 Optometry7.9 FinallyIndex