IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN HUMAN HEALTH AND ITS POSSIBLE ADAPTATION PROCEDURE

1. ClimateChange
Adaptation to Protect
Human Health
Sazzad Khan
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2. Introduction
 Climate change is a significant threat to human
health
 Health: level of functional and metabolic efficiency
of a living organism
 “A state of complete physical, mental, and social
well-being and not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity (WHO, 1948 constitution)
 Adaptation is a process to cope with the changing
environment
 What types of approaches are being used in health
adaptation planning and implementation?

3. Outline
 Strong evidence of past and future climate
change
 Establish links between climate change and
health
 Major health vulnerabilities to climate change
in developing countries
 Need for adaptation measures to protect
human health under climate variability and
climate change

4. Evidence of
past and
future climate
change
AtmosphericCO2 conc. has increased by more than 30% since
pre-industrial time ( 280-400 ppm)

5. Increase in
Global
Temperature
Global temperature may go up to by 6.O °C as CO2
concentration goes

6. Pathways for
Climate to
Affect Health

7. Climate
Change and
Health
Linkage

9. WHO:
Between 2030-2050
250,000 additional
deaths per yearby
frommalnutrition,
malaria, diarrhoea and
heat stress.

10. Adaptation
Measures

11. Adaptation
Measures

12. Types of
Adaptation

13. Examples of
adaptation

17. Global design
and
collaboration
for climate
and health
adaptation
 In 2010 a design was established byWHO to address the similar
stresses face by countries such as health risks associated with
water scarcity or changing vector habitats

18. Global design
and
collaboration
for climate
and health
adaptation
From 2010 to 2014, all country projects have
worked toward the same four objectives:
 To enhance systems of early warning and early
action;
 To build capacity of national actors and reduce
barriers to health sector adaptation
 To conduct specific health risk reduction
interventions; and
 Documentation and sharing lessons learned in
addressing the health risks associated with
climate change in their area.

19. Vulnerabilities
in Bangladesh

21. Selection of
Health
Outcomes
Criteria is used to address the diseases that are
 Sensitive to climate variation
 Important global health burden.
Quantitative models are available at the global scale:
 Malnutrition (prevalence)
 Diarrhoeal disease (incidence)
 Vector-bornediseases– dengueand falciparum malaria
 Inland and coastal floods (mortality)
 Heat and cold-related cardiovascular disease mortality

22. Comparative
Risk
Assessment
 What will be the total potential health impact caused by climate
change (2000 to 2030)?
 How much of this could be avoided by reducing the risk factor (i.e.
stabilizingGHG emissions)?

23. Conclusion