02033nas a2200193   4500000000100000008004100001260001200042653001900054653001400073653001800087100001300105700001400118700001200132700001500144245017000159856026000329520123600589022001401825       2020                            d  c01/202010aClimate change10aSkin NTDs10aPublic health1 aCoates S1 aEnbiale W1 aDavis M1 aAndersen L00aThe effects of climate change on human health in Africa, a dermatologic perspective: a report from the International Society of Dermatology Climate Change Committee.  uhttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wendemagegn-Yeshaneh/publication/338767748_The_effects_of_climate_change_on_human_health_in_Africa_a_dermatologic_perspective_a_report_from_the_International_Society_of_Dermatology_Climate_Change_Committee/links/5f360c3 a<p>Throughout much of the African continent, healthcare systems are already strained in their efforts to meet the needs of a growing population using limited resources. Climate change threatens to undermine many of the public health gains that have been made in this region in the last several decades via multiple mechanisms, including malnutrition secondary to drought-induced food insecurity, mass human displacement from newly uninhabitable areas, exacerbation of environmentally sensitive chronic diseases, and enhanced viability of pathogenic microbes and their vectors. We reviewed the literature describing the various direct and indirect effects of climate change on diseases with cutaneous manifestations in Africa. We included non-communicable diseases such as malignancies (non-melanoma skin cancers), inflammatory dermatoses (i.e. photosensitive dermatoses, atopic dermatitis), and trauma (skin injury), as well as communicable diseases and neglected tropical diseases. Physicians should be aware of the ways in which climate change threatens human health in low- and middle-income countries in general, and particularly in countries throughout Africa, the world's lowest-income and second most populous continent.</p>  a1365-4632