Presentation: Health in changing climate
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Health in a Changing Climate
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Change Global Climate is changing
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Determinants of health (in slide master)
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Person’s individual characteristics and behaviors Physical environment Social and economic environment
Source: www.who.int/hia/evidence/doh/en/
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Climate Change: Health Impact (in slide master)
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Extreme Vector-borne
weather events Diseases shifting to new Water-borne
locations Diseases
CLIMATE
Temperature
CHANGE related illness Increase in Effects of food
frequency and/ & water or Severity of shortages extreme Injuries
weather events
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Water
Both extremes can have health effects Too little
Too much
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Flooding: Projection (in slide master)
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Flooding - Too much water
• increasing cases of drowning and other physical trauma;
- increasing risks of water- and vector-borne infectious diseases;
- increasing mental health effects associated with emergency situations;
• disrupting health systems, facilities and services, leaving
communities without access to health care when they are needed most; and- damaging basic infrastructure such as food and water supplies and safe shelter
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Drought – Too Little (in slide master)
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Water: Too much and Too Less (in slide master)
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Vector - borne diseases (in slide master)
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Dengue Fever Malaria
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Dengue pattern relation to 'La Niña’ (in slide master)
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Dengue (in slide master)
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Rain, temperature and humidity (in slide master)
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Rain
Increase breeding sites for mosquitoes
Humidity
Mosquito survival Temperature Parasite development rates
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Biological Amplification (in slide master)
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A mere half degree centigrade increase
in temperature can bring about a 30 – 100% increase in mosquito abundance. Highlands with low temperature are no
longer safe against mosquito borne disease.
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Heat waves (in slide master)
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Vulnerable people: Elderly people, infants,people with other diseases (heart, respiratory) Manual Labors
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Heat wave – Europe 2003 (in slide master)
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Air Quality (in slide master)
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of climate change
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For health effects?
Focus surveillance efforts at areas predicted to be at particularly high risk for changing patterns of disease
- Vector-borne diseases (malaria, dengue, etc)
There are not yet early warning systems for everything, everywhere
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Summary (in slide master)
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Increase of climate sensitive diseases
(Shift of) high temperatures & vectors
Same problems - changing patterns/frequency/
places Proper adaptation measure can reduce the
burden of disease
Combine detection/surveillance, baseline
resilience and use of climate information to promote health resilience
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Health Unit can I help you…..