{"id":239200,"date":"2019-12-05T01:31:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T06:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=239200"},"modified":"2019-12-05T01:31:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T06:31:40","slug":"who-climate-change-greatest-threat-to-global-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/12\/05\/who-climate-change-greatest-threat-to-global-health\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO: Climate change greatest threat to global health"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_232207\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-232207\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pollution-2575166_1920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-232207\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pollution-2575166_1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pollution-2575166_1920.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pollution-2575166_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pollution-2575166_1920-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pollution-2575166_1920-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-232207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File: The report aimed to raise awareness on the health effects of climate change. (Pixabay Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Climate change is the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n<p>In a recent report, the WHO said health professionals have a duty to protect people from climate impacts, outbreaks of infectious diseases, and the effects of malnutrition as well as to treat people affected by cancer and other non-communicable diseases caused by environmental pollution.<\/p>\n<p>The report aimed to raise awareness on the health effects of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO also called on the global health community to add its voice to the call for a strong and effective climate agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The climate agreement aimed to reduce climate change and improve health, including reducing the number of deaths from cancer and respiratory and cardiovascular diseases that are caused by air pollution.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement committed to contribute to the development and implementation of measures to limit climate change and protect countries, communities and workplaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA\u00a0&#8212; Climate change is the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century, according to the World Health Organization &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":232207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239203,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239200\/revisions\/239203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}