Climate Change and Health
WHO has been working on climate change and health for over 25 years - advocating, collecting evidence and providing comprehensive support to countries in dealing with health effects of climate change.
Cross-cutting Actionables
- Strengthen and support implementation of the Health in All Policies approach at the national and subnational level.
- Mainstream health and wellbeing, throughout all public service planning with specific consideration to people in vulnerable situations such as migrants, refugees, internally displaced people, people in informal settlements etc.
- Support the effective engagement and direct participation of communities in planning and policy development.
- Conduct health, economic and environmental impact assessments of future and existing policies and interventions.
- Collaborate across sectors for managing environmental determinants of health.
- Allocate resources across sectors to account for the expected health impacts of sector-based policies. Use fiscal and financial mechanisms to influence environmental determinants of health through investments in adequate housing, energy efficiency, cycling and pedestrian networks, and mass transit, as well as taxation of unhealthy products and practices.
- Monitor and track risks to health and wellbeing of different population groups; monitor the adoption and health impacts of policies and investments using timely data and targeted indicators; disaggregate by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts.
