Advice on climate change and health

The Health Council has included the following in its plans:

Climate change will increasingly affect public health, also in the Netherlands. Examples of health effects include more heat stress, more health problems due to an increase in fungi and bacteria, more infectious diseases that previously did not or hardly occur in the Netherlands, more allergies such as hay fever due to a longer flowering season and the arrival of new plant species, and more skin cancer due to increased exposure to UV radiation. In 2024, the Health Council together with the Scientific Climate Council will start mapping the state of science on these and other adverse health effects of climate change.

The advisory report on climate change and health is currently being explored and the possible date of publication is not yet known.