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Taking Action to Protect Health from Climate ChangeTaking Action to Protect Health from Climate Change
Carlos Corvalan – PAHO/WHOCarlos Corvalan – PAHO/WHO
Global Workshop to Evaluate Guides to Assess Global Workshop to Evaluate Guides to Assess Health Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate ChangeHealth Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change
20-23 July 201020-23 July 2010San José, Costa RicaSan José, Costa Rica
Taking Action to Protect Health from Climate ChangeTaking Action to Protect Health from Climate Change
Carlos Corvalan – PAHO/WHOCarlos Corvalan – PAHO/WHO
Global Workshop to Evaluate Guides to Assess Global Workshop to Evaluate Guides to Assess Health Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate ChangeHealth Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change
20-23 July 201020-23 July 2010San José, Costa RicaSan José, Costa Rica
Basic concepts
The Climate Change challenge
An agenda for action
What constitutes Health?
Social well-being?
Physical, mental health?
Everything?
What constitutes the environment?
Physical, Chemical, Biological agents?
Social, cultural
environment?
Everything?
Environmental health refers to those aspects of human health or disease whichare determined by environmentalfactors
What is Environmental Health?
It also refers to the theory and practice
of assessing and controlling environmental factors which can
harm human health, or promoting those which protect health
Health
Direct causes
Air pollution
Water,sanitation
Chemicals
Vector breeding
sites
Radiation
Causes of the causes
Degraded ecosystems
Migration
Desertification
Climate change
Environment-society-individual interaction on health
Malaria
Dengue
Leishmaniasisetc.
Transport
Injuries
Physical inactivity
Respiratory diseases
Cardiovasc. diseases
Diabetes
Cancer
Malaria
Cardiovasc. diseases
Injuries
etc.
Malnutrition
Diarrhoea
Diarrhoea
Malnutrition
Drownings
Intestinal parasites
etc.
Lung cancer
Respiratory infections
COPD
Cardiovasc. diseases
Water scarcity
Energy
Global inequalities: GNI versus EBDGlobal inequalities: GNI versus EBD
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India
Brazil
China
Mozambique
Guinea-Bissau
Basic concepts
The Climate Change challenge
An agenda for action
Proximal causes
Air pollution
Water,sanitation
Chemicals
Radiation
Causes of the causes
Degraded ecosystems
Migration
Desertification
Climate change
Waterscarcity
EnergyTransport
Vector breeding
sites
Health
Climate change impacts on other risk factors
The health effects of climate change
The health effects of climate change
Climate change produce local health impacts
and increase inequalities
the most vulnerable groups:
Children under 5;
Pregnant women;
Elderly people;
Marginalized rural, urban and indigenous populations;
Displazed persons
Climate change begins with…
Climate change: children are the worst affected88% of the burden of disease attributable to
climate change affects children under 5
The most vulnerable to environmental changes are the least responsible for their cause
the most vulnerable regions:
With high transmission of climate sensitive diseases;
Low food production;
Water scarcity;
Island and coastal citiesMountain communities
climate change begins with…
the most important public health problems:
Communicable diseases;
Food security;
Disaster risks
Water quality and access
Disease vectors
Climate change begins with…
Many of the major killers are climate sensitive
- Each year:
- Undernutrition kills 3.5 million
- Diarrhoea kills 2.2 million
- Malaria kills over 900 thousand
Each of these is highly sensitive to temperature and precipitation
Basic concepts
The Climate Change challenge
An agenda for action
Global Workplan for addressing the implications of climate change for health and health systems
Workplan Aims:
• Support health systems in all countries, in order to enhance capacity for assessing and monitoring health vulnerability, risks and impacts due to climate change;
• Identify strategies and actions to protect human health, particularly of the most vulnerable groups; and
• Share knowledge and good practices.
Raising awareness
Partnerships
Evidence
Strengthen health
systems
Addressing the implications of climate change
for health
Global Workplan Objectives
Workplan Objectives:
1. Raising awareness of the effects of climate change on health, in order to prompt action for public health measures.
2. Engage in partnerships with other United Nations organizations and sectors other than the health sector at national, regional and international levels, in order to ensure that health protection and health promotion are central to climate change adaptation and mitigation policies
3. Promote and support the generation of scientific evidence
4. Strengthen health systems to cope with the health threats posed by climate change, including emergencies related to extreme weather events and sea-level rise
Actions from the local to the global setting
We have only one Mother Earth