Monitoring and Evaluation Indicators for Climate Change-Related Health Impacts, Risks, Adaptation, and Resilience

Ebi, Kristie L.; Boyer, Christopher; Bowen, Kathryn; Frumkin, Howard; Hess, Jeremy

doi:10.3390/ijerph15091943

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“…Therefore, adaptation processes occur at different time scales. While the fastest are seen within one single season [16] other responses show mortality displacement across seasons [28,29] or might even take years [30].…”

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confidence: 99%

Evidence of Adaptation to Increasing Temperatures

Weitensfelder

Moshammer

2019

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In times of rising temperatures, the question arises on how the human body adapts. When assumed that changing climate leads to adaptation, time series analysis should reveal a shift in optimal temperatures. The city of Vienna is especially affected by climate change due to its location in the Alpine Range in Middle Europe. Based on mortality data, we calculated shifts in optimal temperature for a time period of 49 years in Vienna with Poisson regression models. Results show a shift in optimal temperature, with optimal temperature increasing more than average temperature. Hence, results clearly show an adaptation process, with more adaptation to warmer than colder temperatures. Nevertheless, some age groups remain more vulnerable than others and less able to adapt. Further research focusing on vulnerable groups should be encouraged.

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confidence: 99%

Evidence of Adaptation to Increasing Temperatures

Weitensfelder

Moshammer

2019

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“…Health authorities are increasingly responding to that need by taking preventive actions to build climate-resilient health systems (e.g., assessments, global conferences, research studies, partnership building) and the development of decision-support tools to support adaptation (e.g., health facility resiliency tools) [ 11 ]. Health authorities also are beginning to monitor progress towards resilience [ 48 ]. Climate change and health stress tests build upon these efforts, exploring the extent to which each component of health systems is prepared to manage increases in climate-related shocks and stresses in the context of other challenges—a key indicator of resilience.…”

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confidence: 99%

Stress Testing the Capacity of Health Systems to Manage Climate Change-Related Shocks and Stresses

Ebi

Berry

Hayes

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Vulnerability and adaptation assessments can provide valuable input to foster climate-resilient health systems. However, these assessments often do not explore the potential health risks of climate change far outside the range of recent experience with extreme weather events and other climate-related hazards. Climate and health stress tests are designed to increase the capacity of health systems and related sectors to manage potentially disruptive climate-related shocks and stresses. Stress tests focus on hypothetical scenarios, during which it would be difficult for the health system to maintain its essential function of providing services to protect population health. The stress test explores approaches to effectively manage acute and chronic climate-related events and conditions that could directly impact health systems, and climate-related events in non-health sectors that can indirectly impact health outcomes and/or health system function. We provide detailed methods and guidance for conducting climate and health stress tests, centering on three primary activities: (1) preparing and scoping the stress test; (2) successfully conducting the stress test; and (3) communicating the results to key stakeholders to facilitate policy and programmatic reforms.

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“…Existing monitoring and evaluation techniques as practiced in the health sector today do not adequately serve the purposes required by the proposed Health Crisis Manager. Improved indicators are needed in: (1) vulnerability and exposure to climate-related hazards; (2) current impacts and projected risks; and (3) adaptation processes and health system resilience, and an evidence-based approach requiring systematic, coordinated efforts among various stakeholders (Hess et al 2014;Ebi et al 2018). My listing of some of the responsibilities of a proposed health crisis manager is meant to shock the consciousness of current disaster planners, and emphasize why and how climate change poses a wide range of current and future health risks and professional tasks that health professionals need to understand, track, and manage within a broader multidisciplinary framework.…”

Section: Climate Change/extremesmentioning

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Challenges of Global Public Health Emergencies: Development of a Health-Crisis Management Framework

Burkle

2019

Tohoku J. Exp. Med.

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Modern day health care providers have traditionally only focused on meeting the response phase requirements of disasters. The emergence of complex global public health crises such as climate change and extremes, biodiversity loss, emergencies of scarcity, rapid unsustainable urbanization, migrant and refugee surges, domestic and international terrorism, cyber-security, the civilianization of war and conflict, and the global rise of resistant antibiotics has resulted in an unprecedented rise in direct and indirect mortality and morbidity. These crises are beyond the current decision-making and operational capabilities of traditional disaster management and its providers most of who are community level practitioners representing every discipline. The 1930s "disaster cycle" concept describes a phase-related approach to meeting the strategic, operational, research, educational, and training components required of disasters; and, presents an opportunity for the structured development of a Health Crisis Management Framework to oversee the phase-related strategic and operational requirements for prevention, preparedness, response, recovery and rehabilitation challenges of major global public health crises. Whereas this approach mimics the manner in which practitioners at every level of society identify with in their daily practices, this approach deserves the support of every clinician, researcher, academic, and ancillary health care provider. Interestingly, this was also the intent of the original 1930 disaster cycle concept.

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Monitoring and Evaluation Indicators for Climate Change-Related Health Impacts, Risks, Adaptation, and Resilience

Cited by 70 publications

References 26 publications

Evidence of Adaptation to Increasing Temperatures

Evidence of Adaptation to Increasing Temperatures

Stress Testing the Capacity of Health Systems to Manage Climate Change-Related Shocks and Stresses

Challenges of Global Public Health Emergencies: Development of a Health-Crisis Management Framework

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