Managing the health effects of climate change
This report considers what the main obstacles to effective adaptation to the effects of climate change on health might be. It focuses on six aspects that connect climate change to adverse health outcomes: changing patterns of disease and mortality, food, water and sanitation, shelter and human settlements, extreme events, and population and migration. Each has been considered in relation to five key challenges to form a policy response framework: informational, poverty and equity-related, technological, sociopolitical, and institutional.
The report raises many challenging and urgent issues for politicians, civil servants, academics, health professionals, NGOs, pressure groups, and local communities, and calls for global expertise and representatives from across the world to come together to develop priorities for management, implementation and monitoring of the health effects of climate change. Recommendations on management of the health effects of climate change are listed at the end of this report.