Climate Services to Improve Public Health

Author: Jancloes Michel   Thomson Madeleine   Costa María Máñez   Hewitt Chris   Corvalan Carlos   Dinku Tufa   Lowe Rachel   Hayden Mary  

Publisher: MDPI

E-ISSN: 1660-4601|11|5|4555-4559

ISSN: 1660-4601

Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol.11, Iss.5, 2014-04, pp. : 4555-4559

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Abstract

A high level expert panel discussed how climate and health services could best collaborate to improve public health. This was on the agenda of the recent Third International Climate Services Conference, held in Montego Bay, Jamaica, 4–6 December 2013. Issues and challenges concerning a demand led approach to serve the health sector needs, were identified and analysed. Important recommendations emerged to ensure that innovative collaboration between climate and health services assist decision-making processes and the management of climate-sensitive health risk. Key recommendations included: a move from risk assessment towards risk management; the engagement of the public health community with both the climate sector and development sectors, whose decisions impact on health, particularly the most vulnerable; to increase operational research on the use of policy-relevant climate information to manage climate- sensitive health risks; and to develop in-country capacities to improve local knowledge (including collection of epidemiological, climate and socio-economic data), along with institutional interaction with policy makers.

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