Assessing Health Vulnerabilities and Adaptation to Climate Change: A Review of International Progress
| Autor: | Joy Shumake-Guillemot, Peter Berry, Elena Villalobos Prats, Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Paddy M. Enright |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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vulnerability assessment
Internationality Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis media_common.quotation_subject climate change and health Climate Change Climate change Developing country lcsh:Medicine Review adaptation 010501 environmental sciences Global Health 01 natural sciences Vulnerable Populations 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Vulnerability assessment Adaptation Psychological Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Adaptation (computer science) Environmental planning 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Adaptive capacity lcsh:R Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Capacity building climate resilient health systems adaptive capacity General partnership Psychological resilience Business |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 15, Iss 12, p 2626 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 1660-4601 1661-7827 |
| Popis: | Climate change is increasing risks to human health and to the health systems that seek to protect the safety and well-being of populations. Health authorities require information about current associations between health outcomes and weather or climate, vulnerable populations, projections of future risks and adaptation opportunities in order to reduce exposures, empower individuals to take needed protective actions and build climate-resilient health systems. An increasing number of health authorities from local to national levels seek this information by conducting climate change and health vulnerability and adaptation assessments. While assessments can provide valuable information to plan for climate change impacts, the results of many studies are not helping to build the global evidence-base of knowledge in this area. They are also often not integrated into adaptation decision making, sometimes because the health sector is not involved in climate change policy making processes at the national level. Significant barriers related to data accessibility, a limited number of climate and health models, uncertainty in climate projections, and a lack of funding and expertise, particularly in developing countries, challenge health authority efforts to conduct rigorous assessments and apply the findings. This paper examines the evolution of climate change and health vulnerability and adaptation assessments, including guidance developed for such projects, the number of assessments that have been conducted globally and implementation of the findings to support health adaptation action. Greater capacity building that facilitates assessments from local to national scales will support collaborative efforts to protect health from current climate hazards and future climate change. Health sector officials will benefit from additional resources and partnership opportunities to ensure that evidence about climate change impacts on health is effectively translated into needed actions to build health resilience. |
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