Climate change impact on Health

How does climate change impact our Health & Wellbeing?

Physical Health

​Climate change can affect our physical health in the following ways:

Climate change can impact temperatures which impacts our body and how it functions in our day to day. It can also impact our nutrition which affects the quality and quantity of foods we can consume. Climate change results in an increase in airborne disease which can impact our physical health via illness

Multiple Select

Which of the following is an impact of climate change on our physical health? Select all correct answers.

• Airborne diseases

• Food/nutrition supply issues

• Increased daily temperatures

• Carbon offsetting your plane trips

Emotional Health

Climate change can impact your emotional health

Climate change is quite a daunting thing which can affect your emotional health as it can limit the availability of resources or potentially displace you. This can affect your overall mood and self-esteem as you may not have access to required resources.

Multiple Choice

Emotional health is linked to your mood, self-esteem and how you react to situations and regulate emotions. If climate change was to cause you to make a significant lifestyle change, like moving from your home due to bushfire or rising sea levels, do you think this would impact your emotional health?

• Yes, moving home would impact my mood and would make me quite upset, affecting how I react to situations

• Yes, but only because I think I should be sad

• Yes, but because McDonald's is further away

• The answer is no

Mental Health

The impacts of climate change will have a big impact on your mental health

Extreme weather events, rising sea levels, vector-borne diseases, air pollution, and changing weather patterns can have a considerable impact on a person's mental health.

Multiple Choice

Climate change can impact a person's mental health due to the extreme nature of it's impacts. These impacts will negatively affect a person's mental health as they create challenging circumstances which can be hard to adapt to without significant change.

• True

• False

• Um

• Not sure

Social Health

Climate change can impact our social health by impacting a person's ability to access social resources, engage in social activities, or by displacing them due to events such as bushfire, which removes them from their usual social structures.

Multiple Select

Social health is impacted by climate change in what way? Select all correct answers.

• By displacing a person from their social structures/groups

• By creating difficulty in accessing social structures/groups

• By limiting access to social resources

• By making it harder to host parties on the weekend

Multiple Select

We can limit our own carbon footprint by changing some of our daily habits.

Select all correct habits you could change to reduce your footprint.

• Minimising shower times

• Using the aircon all night, every night of the year

• Walking to school when it's not raining

• Cook a lot of red meat to increase protein intake

Multiple Select

Australia has been impacted by a lot of climate change-related issues, such as: (select all correct answers)

• Rising sea levels

• Extreme weather events

• Air pollution

• Changing weather patterns