Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment of Health to Climate Change in Ethiopia: Final Report

Federal Ministry of Health, Ethiopia, September 2015

Overview

This report assess the key current and predicted vulnerabilities of the Ethiopian health sector to climate change. This assessment determined the vulnerability for each state though the systematic identification of climate-related hazards, exposures and adaptive capacities, including consideration of the social and environmental determinants of health. The outcomes and recommendations from the report support evidence-based decision making on appropriate mitigation strategies to ensure resilience of the health sector to climate variability and change.

WHO Team
Climate Change and Health (CCH)
Editors
Federal Ministry of Health, Ethiopia
Number of pages
147
Copyright
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