was conducted in and around Bangalore and randomly selected 60 pregnant women
in Bangalore North Taluk, Karnataka constituted population for the study. The
respondents were interviewed using pretested structured interview schedule and
conducted during 2013.
2 Results
2.1 Infectious Diseases and Chronic Diseases in Changing
Climate
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projections of increased
temperature and precipitation suggest the emergence of more disease-friendly
conditions in regions that did not previously host diseases or disease carriers.
Climate change accelerates the spread of disease primarily because warmer global
temperatures enlarge the geographic range in which disease-carrying animals,
insects and microorganisms––as well as the germs and viruses they carry––can
survive. In addition to changing weather patterns, climatic conditions affect diseases
transmitted via vectors such as mosquitoes (vector-borne disease) or through
rodents (rodent-borne disease). The climate-sensitive diseases among the largest
global killers are diarrhea, malaria and protein-energy malnutrition. The extreme
events––like floods, storms, droughts, and uncontained fires can be devastating for
health and can be solved through corporate social responsibility in community
development. Floods spread bacteria, viruses, and chemical contaminants, foster the
growth of fungi, and contribute to the breeding of insects. Prolonged droughts
interrupted by heavy rains, favour population explosions of both insects and
rodents. Extreme weather events have been accompanied by new appearances of
harmful algal blooms. In India, deaths due to chronic diseases were 3.78 million in
1990 (40.4 % of all deaths) and are expected to reach 7.63 million in 2020 (66.7 %
of all deaths). In medicine, a chronic disease is a disease that is long-lasting or
recurrent. The term chronic describes the course of the disease, or its rate of onset
and development. A chronic course is distinguished from a recurrent course;
recurrent diseases relapse repeatedly, with periods of remission in between. As an
adjective, chronic can refer to a persistent and lasting medical condition. Chronicity
is usually applied to a condition that lasts more than three months. Examples of
chronic diseases include: asthma, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic osteoarticular
diseases: rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, chronic respiratory diseases: chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, pulmonary hypertension, Chronic renal
failure, diabetes mellitus, chronic hepatitis, autoimmune diseases, such as ulcerative
colitis, lupus erythematosus, Crohn’s Disease and Coeliac Disease, cardiovascular
diseases: heart failure, ischemic cardiopathy, cerebrovascular disease, epilepsy,
neoplastic. Over the past few decades, chronic diseases have their roots in
unhealthy lifestyles or adverse physical and social environments. Risk factors like
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in Bangalore North Taluk, Karnataka constituted population for the study. The
respondents were interviewed using pretested structured interview schedule and
conducted during 2013.
2 Results
2.1 Infectious Diseases and Chronic Diseases in Changing
Climate
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projections of increased
temperature and precipitation suggest the emergence of more disease-friendly
conditions in regions that did not previously host diseases or disease carriers.
Climate change accelerates the spread of disease primarily because warmer global
temperatures enlarge the geographic range in which disease-carrying animals,
insects and microorganisms––as well as the germs and viruses they carry––can
survive. In addition to changing weather patterns, climatic conditions affect diseases
transmitted via vectors such as mosquitoes (vector-borne disease) or through
rodents (rodent-borne disease). The climate-sensitive diseases among the largest
global killers are diarrhea, malaria and protein-energy malnutrition. The extreme
events––like floods, storms, droughts, and uncontained fires can be devastating for
health and can be solved through corporate social responsibility in community
development. Floods spread bacteria, viruses, and chemical contaminants, foster the
growth of fungi, and contribute to the breeding of insects. Prolonged droughts
interrupted by heavy rains, favour population explosions of both insects and
rodents. Extreme weather events have been accompanied by new appearances of
harmful algal blooms. In India, deaths due to chronic diseases were 3.78 million in
1990 (40.4 % of all deaths) and are expected to reach 7.63 million in 2020 (66.7 %
of all deaths). In medicine, a chronic disease is a disease that is long-lasting or
recurrent. The term chronic describes the course of the disease, or its rate of onset
and development. A chronic course is distinguished from a recurrent course;
recurrent diseases relapse repeatedly, with periods of remission in between. As an
adjective, chronic can refer to a persistent and lasting medical condition. Chronicity
is usually applied to a condition that lasts more than three months. Examples of
chronic diseases include: asthma, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic osteoarticular
diseases: rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, chronic respiratory diseases: chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, pulmonary hypertension, Chronic renal
failure, diabetes mellitus, chronic hepatitis, autoimmune diseases, such as ulcerative
colitis, lupus erythematosus, Crohn’s Disease and Coeliac Disease, cardiovascular
diseases: heart failure, ischemic cardiopathy, cerebrovascular disease, epilepsy,
neoplastic. Over the past few decades, chronic diseases have their roots in
unhealthy lifestyles or adverse physical and social environments. Risk factors like
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