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World Health Organization

WHO guidance to protect health from climate change through health adaptation planning

Guide

17 Oct 2018

This guidance document aims to ensure that the health sector works with partners in the environment and other related communities, and follows a systematic p...

Guide Multisectoral ActionMultistakeholder Collaboration Environment, climate change and healthPrimary health care

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World Health Organization

Our Planet, Our Health, our Future - Human Health and the Rio Conventions

Publication

17 Oct 2018

This report reviews the scientific evidence for the linkages between health and biodiversity, climate change and desertification, the representation of healt...

Publication Environment, climate change and health

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World Health Organization

Strengthening health resilience to climate change

Publication

17 Oct 2018

This is one of two technical background papers prepared as a basis for discussion at the WHO Health and Climate Conference. It provides a brief summary of th...

Publication Environment, climate change and health

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World Health Organization

Second Global Conference Health and Climate report 2016

Report

17 Oct 2018

The 2016 conference showcased how the public health community will support the implementation of the Paris agreement, in order to build healthier and more su...

Report Environment, climate change and health

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World Health Organization

Quantitative risk assessment of the effects of climate change  on selected causes of death, 2030s and 2050s

Publication

17 Oct 2018

This publication is a WHO-released quantitative assessment of the health impacts of climate change. It constitutes an update and a further development of the...

Publication Environment, climate change and health

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World Health Organization

Protecting health from climate change: vulnerability and adaptation assessment

Publication

17 Oct 2018

This document is designed to provide basic and flexible guidance on conducting a national or subnational assessment of current and future vulnerability (i.e....

Publication Environment, climate change and healthSocial determinants of health

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World Health Organization

Protecting health from climate change: vulnerability and adaptation assessment

Publication

17 Oct 2018

This document is designed to provide basic and flexible guidance on conducting a national or subnational assessment of current and future vulnerability (i.e....

Publication Environment, climate change and healthSocial determinants of health

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World Health Organization

Protecting health from climate change: Global research priorities

Publication

17 Oct 2018

WHO carried out a global consultation which brought experts on climate change, health and related disciplines together to produce background reports covering...

Publication Environment, climate change and healthSocial determinants of health

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World Health Organization

Protecting health from climate change

Report

17 Oct 2018

This report provides an update of the evidence on health risks caused by climate change, describes which populations are most vulnerable, and outlines the ac...

Report Environment, climate change and healthSocial determinants of health

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World Health Organization

Promoting health while mitigating climate change

Publication

17 Oct 2018

This is one of two technical background papers prepared as a basis for discussion at the WHO Health and Climate Conference. It provides a brief summary of th...

Publication Multisectoral Action Environment, climate change and healthHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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World Health Organization

Lessons learned on health adaptation to climate variability and change: experiences across low and middle-income countries

Publication

17 Oct 2018

This document in the first part reviews and synthesizes the first five years of implementation (2008–2013) of projects on health adaptation to climate vari...

Publication Multisectoral Action Environment, climate change and healthSocial determinants of health

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World Health Organization

Health and disaster risk reduction within the Global Framework for climate services

Report

17 Oct 2018

This document is a consultation report from a meeting organized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), the I...

Report Multisectoral Action Emergency preparedness, prevention and responseEnvironment, climate change and health

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