The health impacts of climate change are a relatively recent addition to the public health policy agenda. This Discussion Paper sets out important factors that need to be considered now, given that this will be an important issue for public health and populations generally in the coming decades. Adapting to the health impacts of climate change offers the opportunity of bringing improvements in the health of impoverished populations globally, if adaptation policies are designed with their needs in mind. The author also argues that if we do not do this now, we risk developing a climate change and health agenda that, by redirecting resources and interest, could jeopardise efforts to improve the health of impoverished populations.
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Victoria Hall is a Researcher in the Health Section of the Commonwealth Secretariat. She has an MSc in Public and Environmental Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and has conducted research on local decision-making chains affecting sanitation in Kolkata, India.
Early Stages Defining climate change and health policy agenda Who Will be Affected and Why? Interpreting the evidence The Logical and Ethical Policy Response Increasing the adaptive capacity of vulnerable groups What is Required? Responding to existing health needs References
