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Technical Report
|Policy Brief

Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: policy brief on humanitarian impacts

Devine C, Guevara M, Belliveau LB, Jobanputra K, Serafini M, Voûte C, Luquero FJ, Tremblay LL

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Abstract
KEY MESSAGES:

• Apply a cross-sector and interdisciplinary approach to humanitarian and global health responses and local, regional and international collaborations
• Identify, highlight and respond to the disproportionate needs of vulnerable groups
• Better understand the connections between climate-sensitive diseases and climate variability to improve humanitarian planning and responses based on predicted increases in disease burdens in already-vulnerable populations
• Urgently enhance cholera preparedness and response in countries without surveillance capacity
• Develop monitoring and evaluation frameworks and better document risks and interventions with a climate change lens, update health needs assessments, analyze patterns and changes over time and contribute data to operational research
• Document environmental health-related and climate change effects on vulnerable populations to contribute to broader policy advocacy and legal initiatives
• Identify and reduce health disparities in urban slums, including through ensuring access to services and provision of mental health support
• Provide protection for people fleeing including through urging respect and development of people-centred policies
• Recognise that human needs outstrip the humanitarian response: as such, health considerations should be integrated into national and international mitigation planning to reduce suffering
• Invest funds in strengthened humanitarian responses
• Commit to efforts to rapidly and exponentially reduce the negative environmental impact of global health and humanitarian organizations, including MSF, in line with medical ethics.

Subject Area

environmental healthclimate changeenvironmental impact

Languages

English
Published Date
01 Nov 2019
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