Climate Change and Health
WHO has been working on climate change and health for over 25 years - advocating, collecting evidence and providing comprehensive support to countries in dealing with health effects of climate change.

Climate change and health toolkit

Monitoring and evaluation of health adaptation

It is important to have a clear and practical guidance on how to monitor the implementation of relevant health adaptation projects, as well as clear indicators, in order to understand the impact, and measure the scale and nature of health vulnerability to climate change, the vulnerability of the health sector and the main impacts on health as trends. Evaluation methods that allow understanding the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions are also key to gain knowledge on the best health adaptation options.

Key Resources

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Lessons learned on health adaptation to climate variability and change: experiences across low- and middle-income countries

Climate change exacerbates many current climate-sensitive health outcomes and has the potential to affect the ability of health system institutions and...

Operational framework for building climate resilient health systems

This document presents the World Health Organization (WHO) Operational framework for building climate resilient health systems. The framework responds...

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Lessons learned on health adaptation to climate variability and change: experiences across low- and middle-income countries

Climate change exacerbates many current climate-sensitive health outcomes and has the potential to affect the ability of health system institutions and...

2018 WHO health and climate change survey report: tracking global progress

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...

Operational framework for building climate resilient health systems

This document presents the World Health Organization (WHO) Operational framework for building climate resilient health systems. The framework responds...

Quantitative risk assessment of the effects of climate change on selected causes of death, 2030s and 2050s

WHO releases a quantitative assessment of the health impacts of climate change. This constitutes an update and a further development of the assessment...

Climate change and health: a tool to estimate health and adaptation costs

The WHO Regional Office for Europe prepared this economic analysis tool to support adaptation planning to protect health from the negative effects of climate...

Atlas of Health and Climate

The Atlas of health and climate is a product of this unique collaboration between the meteorological and public health communities. It provides...