Abstract
Objective: To highlight how climate change influences public health. Methods: An Integrative Literature Review (RIL) was adopted, in which descriptors were selected: “climate change” and “public health”. The selected articles were indexed in the following databases: Virtual Health Library (VHL) and U.S National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes Health (PUBMED). Therefore, inclusion filters were used according to the availability of the database. From this, articles that do not match the research question, published prior to 2015 and repetitions were used as exclusion criteria. Results: He found that climate change has implications for public health, because in the light of the issues emphasized, Diseases and Public Health Policies represented 47.05% of the sample, each. Among the highlights of each category, Transmitted Diseases were verified by Vectors (17.65%) and the Government and Leadership Strategies in health (41.18%), respectively. Final considerations: In summary, among the changes addressed, we have as an example the increase in temperature, an increasing number of vectors that transmit diseases and pollution, which directly influence the health of the population, either through diseases or by decreasing quality of life. of these people.