partnerships for climate change and public health equity: an ethical imperative
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Partnerships for Climate Change and Public Health Equity: An Ethical Imperative. David Rogers Health and Climate Foundation. What Partnerships?. Health Determinants. Climate change puts the basic determinants of health at risk. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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David RogersHealth and Climate Foundation
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" Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Climate change will affect, in profoundly adverse ways,some of the most fundamental determinants of health: food, air, water.
In the face of this challenge, WHO is committed to do everything it can to ensure all is done to protect human health from climate change”
Margaret Chan, WHO – Director-General (07/04/2008)
Climate change puts the basic Climate change puts the basic determinants of health at risk determinants of health at risk
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*WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health http://www.who.int/social_determinants
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Photo: Matthew Marek/American Red Cross
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*Anaïs Colombini – Agence de Médicine Préventive
Upwards of100 million people are pushed into poverty each year through catastrophic household health costs
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Photo: Jacob Dall/Danish Red Cross
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Mudslide, Ukraine Photo: Joe Lowry/IFRC
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Diseases Diseases include:include:
Inter-Inter-annual annual variabilitvariability:y:
SensitiviSensitivity to ty to climate:climate:
Climate Climate variablevariables:s:
InfluenzaInfluenza * * * * * * * (<T)
MeningitisMeningitis * * * * * * * >T,<H
(>R)
LeishmaniLeishmani
asisasis
* * * * * (>T,>R)
Loa loaLoa loa * * * * >R (<T)
CholeraCholera * * * * * * * * * * (>T)
MalariaMalaria * * * * * * * * * * (>R,T,H)
DengueDengue * * * * * * * (>R,T,H)
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1990
Hales et al. 2002
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Cuevas, L.E., Jeanne, J., Molesworth, M., Bell, M., Savory, E.C., Connor, S.J., and Thomson M.C. (in press).Risk mapping and early warning systems for the control of meningitis in Africa Vaccine
MeningitisMeningitis
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Present 2030: +0.9°C
2050: +1.6°C
Successfully controlled in China since 1950s90% reduction in cases by 2000Now re-emerging
Zhou et al. 2008 Am J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 78(2), 2008, pp. 188-194
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David Rogers
Health and Climate Foundation
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