- Climate change - World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO fact sheet on climate change and health: provides key facts, patterns of infection, measuring health effects and WHO response
- Climate Change and Health - PAHO WHO | Pan American Health Organization
Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century Health is and will be affected by the changing climate through direct impacts (heat waves, droughts, heavy storms, and sea-level rise), and indirect impacts (vector-borne and airways diseases, food and water insecurity, undernutrition, and forced displacements)
- Climate change - World Health Organization (WHO)
Climate change is already impacting health in a myriad of ways, including by leading to death and illness from increasingly frequent extreme weather events, such as heatwaves, storms and floods, the disruption of food systems, increases in zoonoses and food-, water- and vector-borne diseases, and mental health issues Furthermore, climate change is undermining many of the social determinants
- Climate Change and Health - World Health Organization (WHO)
The WHO climate change and health toolkit is a one-stop resource containing key resources that address climate change and health issues
- 2021 WHO Health and Climate Change Survey Report
The health and climate change country survey is conducted every three years and in addition to tracking global progress, the national data are presented in the health and climate change country profiles 95 countries participated in the 2021 survey
- Heat and health - World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO is addressing climate change through the Alliance for Transformational Change in Climate and Health (ATACH), as well as country support of technical and policy resources to help the health sector and communities adapt to the risks of climate change
- COP26 special report on climate change and health: the health argument . . .
The 10 recommendations in the COP26 Special Report on Climate Change and Health propose a set of priority actions from the global health community to governments and policy makers, calling on them to act with urgency on the current climate and health crises
- Climate Change and Health - World Health Organization (WHO)
Unit Head, Climate change and health Dr Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum is the Head of the climate change and health unit at WHO Headquarters He has worked on the issue for over 20 years, playing key roles in the first quantitative estimates of global health impacts of climate change, resolutions of the World Health Assembly, WHO global conferences, and the expansion of WHO’s climate change and
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