Climate change and health toolkit
Vulnerability and adaptation assessments
In order to adequately respond to the impacts of climate change on the health of the population and on the health system, a first critical step is to assess which populations and geographical areas are most vulnerable to different kinds of health impacts as well as the capacity of health systems to manage these. This process aims at identifying weaknesses in the systems that should protect population’s health as well as adaptation options.
Thereby, Vulnerability and Adaptation (V&A) assessments do not only improve the understanding of the linkages between climate change and health, they can also serve as a baseline analysis against which changes in disease risks and protective measures can be monitored. They can also provide the opportunity for building capacity and can strengthen the case for investment in health protection.
Key Resources
All →
In 2013, WHO published the report Protecting health from climate change: vulnerability and adaptation assessment. The aim was to provide basic...
Checklists to Assess vulnerabilities in Health Care Facilities in the Context of Climate Change
Climate change is increasingly affecting health care facilities in many settings around the world. To reduce climate change risks, health care facilities...
This guide presents a basis for understanding how nutrition, specifically undernutrition, is currently influenced by climate and weather, and may...
More Resources
All →
In 2013, WHO published the report Protecting health from climate change: vulnerability and adaptation assessment. The aim was to provide basic...
Checklists to Assess vulnerabilities in Health Care Facilities in the Context of Climate Change
Climate change is increasingly affecting health care facilities in many settings around the world. To reduce climate change risks, health care facilities...
This report provides a vital snapshot of the overall progress that governments have made in the field of health and climate change to date, as well as...
This guide presents a basis for understanding how nutrition, specifically undernutrition, is currently influenced by climate and weather, and may...
Climate-resilient water safety plans: managing health risks associated with climate variability and change
Long-term planning for an adequate and safe supply of drinking-water should be set in the context of growing external uncertainties arising from changes...
Human health and climate change in Pacific Island countries
The global community has had a “blind spot” concerning the extent of the risks posed by human-induced climate change to the well-being, health...
Lessons learned on health adaptation to climate variability and change: experiences across low- and middle-income...
Climate change exacerbates many current climate-sensitive health outcomes and has the potential to affect the ability of health system institutions and...
Quantitative risk assessment of the effects of climate change on selected causes of death, 2030s and...
WHO releases a quantitative assessment of the health impacts of climate change. This constitutes an update and a further development of the assessment...
This guidance document is designed to ensure that the process of iteratively managing the health risks of climate change is integrated into the overall...
This document is designed to provide basic and flexible guidance on conducting a national or subnational assessment of current and future vulnerability...
EuroHEAT, a project coordinated by the WHO Regional Office for Europe and co-funded by the European Commission (EC) DirectorateGeneral for Health and Consumers...
The disease burden of a population, and how that burden is distributed, are important pieces of information for prioritizing and defining strategies to...
Methods of assessing human health vulnerability and public health adaptation to climate change
Provides information on qualitative and quantitative methods of assessing human health vulnerability and public health adaptation to climate change. Objectives...
Climate change and human health - risks and responses
Over the ages, human societies have altered local ecosystems and modified regional climates. Today the human influence has attained a global scale. This...