FOREST FIRE
Author: Thurain Leo( thurain. work @ gmail. com)- + 6287843325481
Name of University: Tarumanagara University, Jakarta
Contact details of Regional Chairperson: Ananta Siddhi Prawara( anantasiddhi @ gmail. com)- + 6281290187030
Background
Climate change is a change in the usual weather found in a place. Climate changes a serious issues not an abstract things anymore. One of the issues that we faced recently is global warming. Indonesia is currently entering its dry season, when fires typically spikes and air quality deteriorates.
Indonesia has 98 millions hectares of forest. The forest is a complex ecosystem consisting mainly of trees that buffer the earth and support a myrial of life forms. Of course weather isn’ t the only factor determining whether fires will take hold. Most of indonesia forest fires are human caused, but levels of dryness affect whether these fires will spread and surge out of control.
The impact of forest fires in health are URI( Upper Respiratory Tract Infections) caused by the smokes come later after the forest fires occured. URI are illnesses caused by an acute infection in respiratory systems. According to the National Disaster Management of Indonesia. There are 529.527 people who suffered URI. Air pollution of the smokes is linked to increased mortality and morbidity in susceptible persons and increased risk of hospital and emergency admissions.
Objectives
1. To inform people about one of the affect of climate change in medicine. 2. To inform people the affect of forest fires in health. 3. To persuade people to prevent forest fires.