Healthy Ecosystems Are a Prerequisite for Human Health—A Call for Action in the Era of Climate Change with a Focus on Russia

Dmitry Orlov, Marija Menshakova, Tomas Thierfelder, Yulia Zaika, Sepp Böhme, Birgitta Evengard and Natalia Pshenichnaya
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Dmitry Orlov: Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia
Marija Menshakova: Department of Natural Sciences, Murmansk Arctic State University, 183038 Murmansk, Russia
Tomas Thierfelder: Department of Energy & Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 75007 Uppsala, Sweden
Yulia Zaika: Federal Research Centre «Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences», 184209 Apatity, Russia
Sepp Böhme: Department of Energy & Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 75007 Uppsala, Sweden
Birgitta Evengard: Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University, 90187 Umeå, Sweden
Natalia Pshenichnaya: Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, 111123 Moscow, Russia

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 22, 1-11

Abstract: Throughout history, humans have experienced epidemics. The balance of living in nature encircled by microorganisms is delicate. More than 70% of today’s emerging infections are zoonotic, i.e., those in which microorganisms transmitted from animals infect humans. Species are on the move at speeds never previously recorded, among ongoing climate change which is especially rapid at high latitudes. This calls for intensified international surveillance of Northern infectious diseases. Russia holds the largest area of thawing permafrost among Northern nations, a process which threatens to rapidly disrupt the balance of nature. In this paper, we provide details regarding Russian health infrastructure in order to take the first steps toward a collaborative international survey of Northern infections and international harmonization of the procured data.

Keywords: zoonotic diseases; climate change; Arctic; Russia; health care system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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