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Editorial
. 2021 May 28:3:690171.
doi: 10.3389/fspor.2021.690171. eCollection 2021.

Editorial: The Effects of Climate Change and Environmental Factors on Exercising Children and Youth

Shawnda A Morrison  1 , Julien D Périard  2 , Patrick De Boever  3   4 , Hein A M Daanen  5
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Editorial: The Effects of Climate Change and Environmental Factors on Exercising Children and Youth

Shawnda A Morrison et al. Front Sports Act Living. .
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Keywords: COVID-19; active play; environmental epidemiology; global warming; hyperthermia; hypoxia; pediatric health.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Effects of climate change on the health of exercising children. Climate change will require human adaptation to its direct (e.g., temperature changes, floods) and indirect interconnected effects (e.g., air pollution, changing disease vector patterns), especially in children, who are considered a vulnerable population and have not been the focus of recent scientific research or policy making to this point, despite clear evidence that children require special focus to reduce health risk. The heading “Physiological effects” refers to both positive and negative adaptations to climate change, from exposure to environmental factors like air pollution and heat, to being aware of the ongoing changes in body constitution of children (e.g., increasingly overweight) as a result of increased sedentary behavior and physical inactivity, which may directly affect heat tolerance and resiliency.
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