Climate change and health toolkit
Health impacts of climate change
Climate change adversely impacts the lives and health of billions of people, and will increasingly do so over the next decades. Indeed, climate change affects the most basic health requirements: clean air, safe water, sufficient food and adequate shelter. It also poses new challenges to the control of infectious diseases, and gradually increases the pressure on the natural, economic and social systems that sustain health.
The health impacts of climate change may differ across populations, and are dependent on several factors such as existing vulnerability and adaptive capacity to changing meteorological conditions of these populations and the associated human and social consequences, as well as a myriad of other determinants that include capacities, available resources, and existing behaviours and attitudes of population groups.
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Quantitative risk assessment of the effects of climate change on selected causes of death, 2030s and...
WHO releases a quantitative assessment of the health impacts of climate change. This constitutes an update and a further development of the assessment...
A new report from WHO presents an overview of the science of the links between climate change and human health. It provides an update of the evidence on...
Weather and climate affect the key determinants of human health: air, food and water. They also influence the frequency of heatwaves, floods and storms...
Climate change and human health - risks and responses
Over the ages, human societies have altered local ecosystems and modified regional climates. Today the human influence has attained a global scale. This...
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This report provides a vital snapshot of the overall progress that governments have made in the field of health and climate change to date, as well as...
COP24 special report: health and climate change
This report is a contribution from the public health community to support the negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...
Gender, Climate Change and Health
The earth’s climate is changing rapidly, mainly due to human activities. Increasing temperatures, sea-level rises, changing patterns of precipitation,...
Quantitative risk assessment of the effects of climate change on selected causes of death, 2030s and...
WHO releases a quantitative assessment of the health impacts of climate change. This constitutes an update and a further development of the assessment...
A new report from WHO presents an overview of the science of the links between climate change and human health. It provides an update of the evidence on...
Weather and climate affect the key determinants of human health: air, food and water. They also influence the frequency of heatwaves, floods and storms...
The disease burden of a population, and how that burden is distributed, are important pieces of information for prioritizing and defining strategies to...
Climate change and human health - risks and responses
Over the ages, human societies have altered local ecosystems and modified regional climates. Today the human influence has attained a global scale. This...