Climate change has triggered health hazards that need to be identified and recognized in Jalisco state. A confirmed threat is the extreme maximum temperatures that lead to a necessary diagnosis of vulnerability and risk as a basis for the design and implementation of adaptation measures to current and future manifestations. The demands of attention of the health sector have increased since the period of time where there is the probability of presenting extreme temperatures and heat waves has increased from two months considered as normal to four months at present with an increase in mortality due to cardiovascular diseases and morbidity due to gastrointestinal infections, likewise, the temperature has increased by two months which promotes the increase of the population of mosquitoes that transmit dengue fever. The above requires a response from the health sector, not only in hospital care, but also in the prevention of exposure through an early warning system in the presence of danger with an evaluation of such communication strategies to break and reverse the increase in damage to the health of the Jalisco state inhabitants, particularly the Tlaquepaque, Zapopan, Tonala, Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta urban areas which turned out to be the most vulnerable to climate change in Jalisco.
Garibay-Chávez, MG; Curiel-Ballesteros, A
Demands to the health sector front the manifestations of climate change in Jalisco
Revista Bio Ciencias