Abstract Climate Change Bites Fenska Seipalla, Henry Timothy, Ardhin Marthdana Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga
The world is getting warmer. An ongoing temperature analysis by NASA’ s Goddard Institute for Space studies( GISSS) report that there is an increase about 0,8’ Celsius of the average global temperature on earth since 1880. But, why should we care about one degree of warming? You may though that the temperature always change every day in our life. But what does it mean? When We talk about Climate change, it simplify not only refer to the rising temperature of the world but also affects to the weather patterns, increase of the natural disaster that hard to predict, plants and animals. The warmer it gets, the more severe the impacts on people and the environment will be. Climate change carry big contribution to create a suitable habitat for mosquito thrives and transmission. As the the increase of mosquitos bite risk and so do the diseases they carry. Indonesia as a tropical country is one of the largest populations at risk on infectious diseases including malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever and recently the world hot news about zika virus transmission. Furthermore, to response this problem, we would like to create an action to promote education and awareness about the consequences of climate change for human life, not only for the certain government major sector of health but also for the public to realize that a small action to reduce the using of facilities which promote climate change can affect the entire of world society ' s health. The choices we make now and in the next few decades will determine how much the planet ' s temperature will rise. Remember, climate change bites.
References: National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 2015. Global Temperature. Available at: http:// climate. nasa. gov / vital-signs / global-temperature /
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