RT Journal Article
T1 Impact of Climate Change on Eye Diseases and Associated Economical Costs.
A1 Echevarría Lucas, Lucía
A1 Senciales-González, José María
A1 Medialdea-Hurtado, María Eloísa
A1 Rodrigo Comino, Jesús
K1 Ojos - Enfermedades - Aspectos ambientales
K1 Cambios climáticos
K1 Economía
AB Climate change generates negative impacts on human health. However, little is knownabout specific impacts on eye diseases, especially in arid and semi-arid areas where increases inair temperatures are expected. Therefore, the main goals of this research are: (i) to highlight theassociation between common eye diseases and environmental factors; and (ii) to analyze, throughthe available literature, the health expenditure involved in combating these diseases and the savingsfrom mitigating the environmental factors that aggravate them. Mixed methods were used to assessthe cross-variables (environmental factors, eye diseases, health costs). Considering Southern Spainas an example, our results showed that areas with similar climatic conditions could increase eyediseases due to a sustained increase in temperatures and torrential rains, among other factors. Wehighlight that an increase in eye diseases in Southern Spain is conditioned by the effects of climatechange by up to 36.5%; the economic burden of the main eye diseases, extrapolated to the rest of thecountry, would represent an annual burden of 0.7% of Spain’s Gross Domestic Product. In conclusion,the increase in eye diseases has a strong economic and social impact that could be reduced withproper management of the effects of climate change. We propose a new concept: disease sink, definedas any climate change mitigation action which reduces the incidence or morbidity of disease.
PB MDPI
YR 2021
FD 2021-07-05
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/40173
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/40173
LA eng
NO Echevarría-Lucas, L... [et al.]. Impact of Climate Change on Eye Diseases and Associated Economical Costs. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 7197. [https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18137197]
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026