ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE

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ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE WORLD HEALTH
ORGANIZATION REGIONAL OFFICE FOR EUROPE Extreme
Weather Events, Water and Health 5th Meeting
of the Working Group on Water and Health Geneva,
5 7 December 2005
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Number of people killed in all water related
extreme events/disasters in the European Region,
1970 - 2005
Source "EM-DAT The OFDA/CRED International
Disaster Database www.em-dat.net - Université
Catholique de Louvain - Brussels - Belgium
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The relationship between regional weather
changes, exposures and health outcomes
cCASHh, Summary for Policy Makers, 2005
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Prevention of health effects of extreme weather
events
Adaptation in other sectors and sytems
Health sytem adaptation

• From disaster response to risk management
• Risk assessment
• Weather warning systems for early public health
  action
• Rapid detection of impacts
• International coordination
• Risk communication
• Research

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What do we propose?

• Risk assessment

?From disaster response to risk management

• Weather warning systems
• for early public health action

• International
• coordination

MP.WAT/WG.4/2005/7EUR/05/5047554/7
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The Working Group
Based on
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GCH unit of WHO/Euro
Bettina Menne bme_at_ecr.who.euro.int Franziska
Matthies evm_at_ecr.who.euro.int Tanja
Wolf two_at_ecr.who.euro.int Christian
Schweizer csc_at_ecr.who.euro.int
http//www.euro.who.int/globalchange