Monitoring and evidence on climate change and health
WHO coordinates reviews of the scientific evidence on the links between climate change and health and helps to shape a global research agenda.
Working closely with health ministries and research centers around the world, WHO gathers and analyses information about climate change health impacts and the level of preparedness of different countries to deal with these.
Through a series of health and climate change country profiles, WHO monitors the health impacts of climate change and the progress in building climate resilient health systems in a wide range of countries.
WHO conducts research and collects evidence on the opportunities for health gains from mitigation of Short-Lived and other climate pollutants. These health co-benefits far outweigh the costs of meeting climate change goals and are an important driver for the socio-political acceptance of the necessary changes across sectors.Human health is strongly determined by environmental health,
such as through ecosystem goods and services, biodiversity, land
degradation and desertification, water services and urban
health. WHO monitors the environmental determinants of health, as well as the
public health implications of global environmental change.
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Publications
All →Measuring greenhouse gas emissions in health systems
Climate change is a growing health crisis, driving increased mortality from heat, malnutrition, and disease, and placing increasing pressure on health...
Health at the heart of national adaptation planning: a global review of national adaptation plans and...
To effectively address these growing health challenges posed by climate change, health considerations must be systematically integrated into broader national...
This report aims to: provide guidance to health systems on decarbonizing their supply chains through changing the way they select, procure and use goods...
Mapping climate change and health indicators
This review sheds light on how countries are measuring the health impacts of climate change. It examines the indicators countries are using in their vulnerability...
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