climate change and NCD different aspects of NCD disease in climate related conditions

1. CLIMATE CHANGE AND NCD
Dr.Y. Premchandra Singh MD
Jt. Director Plg,
Diabetologist & SNO NP-NCD
Directorate of Health Services
Government of Manipur

2. Learning Objective
• Discuss how Climate change and variability impact key
underlying causes of non-communicable diseases, such as
Cardiopulmonary diseases due to air pollution, heat–related
illness, etc.
• Define steps the health sector can tackle to address the
growing burden of NCDs in the era of a warming plannet .

3. Introduction

6. NCDS

8. NCDs are a threat to development
• Impact on population health
• Impact on socio-economic development
Direct – high treatment cost affecting health
system, household, and society
Indirect –productive loss via premature mortality,
labor force exit ,absenteeism, work at lowered capacity
 Impact on poor and Vulnerable

10. Impacts
Some of the impacts are:
• heat waves: cardiovascular diseases, such as stroke
• air pollution: stroke, heart disease, asthma, chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease and lung cancer
• wildfires: suffocation, burns, cardiovascular and respiratory
problems, mental health, destruction of health services and housing
• drought: food insecurity, malnutrition, and psychosocial stress
• floods: disruption to health services, displacement and shortages of
safe water, mental and physiological health, food insecurity and
malnutrition
• injuries and mortality from extreme weather events
• impact on health care facilities.

11. Air Pollution & Climate Change

15. Airborne particulate matter and their health
effects

23. Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation
• The Role of Health Sector

25. Why Health Sector -GHG

26. Action to reduce exposure to the impacts of climate
change and the risks of NCDs
 Health systems must be strengthened to enhance their resilience and better prepare them for the
rising burden of climate change and NCDs.
ensuring that health facilities are protected against extreme weather events;
training the health workforce and including mechanisms to guarantee retention; ensuring
adequate sustainable energy supplies and water, sanitation and waste management services;
enhancing health security; and
reinforcing the prevention, detection and control of NCDs.
 These are integral components of primary health care and universal health coverage.
 To address the increasing rate of premature NCD mortality, cost-effective interventions to reduce
exposure to specific risk factors, prevention and disease-specific management should be
implemented at the same time as scaling up of cross-cutting measures to improve the commercial
determinants of health.
 Most premature deaths from NCDs could be prevented by enabling health systems to respond
more effectively and equitably to the health care needs of people living with NCDs and by
influencing public policies in sectors outside health to tackle shared risk factors.

27. • National assessments of vulnerability to health risks from climate change
should be conducted, and the necessary adaptation measures for
preventing climate-related diseases and death should be implemented.
• The assessment should include vulnerability to NCDs and action to
increase resilience, such as improving access to healthy, nutritious food,
clean drinking water, and hygiene and sanitation services.
• We should invest in policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with co-
benefits for health, such as measures to establish clean energy and
transport to improve air quality;
– clean cooking options;
– transform food systems to make them more sustainable and resilient,
– providing healthy diets for all; and
– walking and cycling to reduce NCDs such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes,
respiratory diseases and several cancers.
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28. • We should develop or update national food-based dietary
guidelines with full integration of
– considerations of environmental sustainability with respect to human, animal
and environmental health in each recommendation, according to the national
context.
• Furthermore, policies should be implemented to ensure
– healthy, safe, sustainable food environments, including schools,
• such as strengthening food control systems;
• restricting marketing of foods that contribute to unhealthy;
• policies for sustainable diets, nutrition labeling,
• fiscal measures and public food procurement;
• gradual reformulation of foods and beverages to reduce their content of saturated fat, sugars,
salt/sodium and trans fat from foods and beverages

30. Co –benefits of Mitigation
• Action to combat climate change can lead to large positive improvements in
public health. The public health benefits of ambitious climate actions far
outweigh the costs, while strengthening health resilience and building
adaptive capacity protects vulnerable populations from health shocks and
promotes social equity.
• “Well-designed climate mitigation measures can also reduce NCD risk
factors
– For instance, measures to ensure clean energy and transport will reduce air pollution;
– policies to promote walking and biking may reduce weight and lower blood pressure.
– Policy for the production and consumption of healthy, locally produced fresh foods,
particularly plant-based foods, and discouraging excessive red meat consumption,
would lower greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture and result in healthier diets.
– In addition, planting trees and shrubs with crops could both increase the resilience of
crops to droughts and excessive rainfall run-off, reduce CO2 emissions as well as
improve health."

31. Inhalers & Climate Change

36. Take Home Message
• Climate change and NCD – Two faces of the same coin
• Care side - Disruptions in the provision of NCD care
• Link between Climate change & NCD –More Data
• Emerging Health Issues
• Co-benefits
• Health policy regarding GHG emission reduction and
adaptation required

37. • THANK YOU