ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Impact of Climate Change on Eye Diseases and Associated Economical Costs.
Review in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Environmental Triggers and Ocular Disease Networks: Analyzing the Impact of Air Pollutants and Meteorological Factors Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps.Environment & health (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- A global score for skin environmental exposure: integrating UV radiation, heat, and pollution via fuzzy analytic hierarchy process.International journal of biometeorology · 2026Article
- Climate change and eye health: Awareness of health sciences students at a South African University.Health SA = SA Gesondheid · 2026Article
- Perspectives on implementing environmentally sustainable practices in cataract surgeries: interviews of administrative and frontline healthcare workers.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Perspectives on Implementing Environmentally Sustainable Practices in Cataract Surgeries: Interviews of Administrative and Frontline Healthcare Workers.Research square · 2025Article
- Climate Change and the Impact on Ocular Infectious Diseases: A Narrative Review.Ophthalmology and therapy · 2025Review
- [Climate change as a factor in the development of retinal diseases: a critical review].Die Ophthalmologie · 2025Review
- Keeping an eye on climate change? Effects on vision health.Journal of biosciences · 2025Review
- National Eye Institute's (NEI) coordination efforts and current opportunities for sustainability, adaptation, and climate resilience in global eye health - ARVO 2023 session commentary.Eye (London, England) · 2024Article
- How Ophthalmologists Can Decarbonize Eye Care: A Review of Existing Sustainability Strategies and Steps Ophthalmologists Can Take.Ophthalmology · 2023Review
- Toxic External Exposure Leading to Ocular Surface Injury.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- [Position paper and recommendations for action for ecologically sustainable ophthalmology : Statement of the German Society of Ophthalmology (DOG) and the German Professional Association of Ophthalmologists (BVA)].Die Ophthalmologie · 2023Review
- [Current and future effects of climate change on ophthalmology].Die Ophthalmologie · 2022Review
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Abstract
Climate change generates negative impacts on human health. However, little is known about specific impacts on eye diseases, especially in arid and semi-arid areas where increases in air temperatures are expected. Therefore, the main goals of this research are: (i) to highlight the association between common eye diseases and environmental factors; and (ii) to analyze, through the available literature, the health expenditure involved in combating these diseases and the savings from mitigating the environmental factors that aggravate them. Mixed methods were used to assess the cross-variables (environmental factors, eye diseases, health costs). Considering Southern Spain as an example, our results showed that areas with similar climatic conditions could increase eye diseases due to a sustained increase in temperatures and torrential rains, among other factors. We highlight that an increase in eye diseases in Southern Spain is conditioned by the effects of climate change by up to 36.5%; the economic burden of the main eye diseases, extrapolated to the rest of the country, would represent an annual burden of 0.7% of Spain's Gross Domestic Product. In conclusion, the increase in eye diseases has a strong economic and social impact that could be reduced with proper management of the effects of climate change. We propose a new concept: disease sink, defined as any climate change mitigation action which reduces the incidence or morbidity of disease.
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