Partnerships for Climate Change and Public Health Equity: An Ethical Imperative

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Partnerships for Climate Change and Public Health
Equity An Ethical Imperative

• David Rogers
• Health and Climate Foundation

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What Partnerships?
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Health Determinants
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Climate change puts the basic determinants of
health at risk

" Climate change is one of the greatest
challenges of our time. Climate change will
affect, in profoundly adverse ways, some of the
most fundamental determinants of health food,
air, water. In the face of this challenge, WHO
is committed to do everything it can to ensure
all is done to protect human health from climate
change Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General
(07/04/2008)
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The Social Determinants of Health and Health
Equity
WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of
Health http//www.who.int/social_determinants
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Health Impacts of Climate Change
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Health and Climate Change
Photo Matthew Marek/American Red Cross
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Contributing to Poverty The case of Meningitis
Photo Science
Upwards of100 million people are pushed into
poverty each year through catastrophic household
health costs
Anaïs Colombini Agence de Médicine Préventive
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Health Impacts of Climate Change
Photo Jacob Dall/Danish Red Cross
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Health Impacts of Adaptation and Mitigation
Measures
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Health Impacts of Adaptation and Mitigation
Measures
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Natural Disasters Heat waves, floods, droughts
and storms
Mudslide, Ukraine Photo Joe Lowry/IFRC
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Changing Patterns of Infection
Diseases include Inter-annual variability Sensitivity to climate Climate variables
Influenza (ltT)
Meningitis gtT,ltH (gtR)
Leishmaniasis (gtT,gtR)
Loa loa gtR (ltT)
Cholera (gtT)
Malaria (gtR,T,H)
Dengue (gtR,T,H)
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Dengue
1990
Hales et al. 2002
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Malaria
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The distribution of meningitis epidemics before
and after 1980
Meningitis
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Cuevas, L.E., Jeanne, J., Molesworth, M., Bell,
M., Savory, E.C., Connor, S.J., and Thomson M.C.
(in press).Risk mapping and early warning systems
for the control of meningitis in Africa Vaccine
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Schistosomiasis
Present
2030 0.9C
Successfully controlled in China since 1950s 90
reduction in cases by 2000 Now re-emerging Zhou
et al. 2008 Am J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 78(2), 2008,
pp. 188-194
2050 1.6C
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Actions
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• David Rogers
• Health and Climate Foundation
• 1425 K St. NW Suite 350, Washington DC 20005, USA
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• Champ Courtet, Marchissy 1261, Switzerland
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• http//www.hc-foundation.org/