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Protecting human health against climate change in Africa

14 Apr 2022

There is growing change and health in a coordinated and evidence from reports of the United Nations harmonious manner for the whole of Framework Convention on Climate Change Africa to address urgent actions on climate (UNFCCC) and the Intergovernmental Panel change adaptation and mitigation and to on Climate Change (IPCC) that climate change raise the visibility of human health as major is having. [...] To identify and prioritise existing Main findings of the NASAC report knowledge gaps with respect to the risks to health and to promote research to fill • The African continent is the most the knowledge gaps and find solutions for vulnerable to the adverse health effects of the following questions: climate change (a) What are the levels of risks? The vulnerability of the African continent to (b) W. [...] NASAC Climate change and health in Africa | April 2022 | 3 undertaken by the Ministry of Health, the and who can play important roles in health component of climate change is the field and lead climate science in the either missing or incomplete. [...] In most parts of Africa, the heath system is 1.3 Vulnerability to climate change fragmented, vertical and remains weak in The African continent is particularly vulnerable health expenditure, health infrastructure and to the effects of climate change (Boko et al., the number of health professionals in relation 2007; WHO 2015c). [...] It also illustrates how the impacts of climate change are interrelated: rising temperature melted the ice caps, changing the topology of the land and affecting the lives and livelihoods of the local communities.

Authors

NASAC

Pages
110
Published in
Italy