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Agenda for the Americas on Health, Environment, and Climate Change 2021–2030

Pan American Health Organization (2021) C_WHO

This publication presents the Agenda for the Americas on Health, Environment, and Climate Change 2021–2030 (the Agenda). The Agenda is a call to action to the health sector to lead the charge to address environmental determinants of health in the Americas. The Pan American Health Organization (PAH...O) will work with Member States to achieve its goal and objective to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages using a sustainable and equitable approach that places a priority on reducing health inequity. The Agenda has been developed under the umbrella of the WHO Global Strategy on Health, Environment, and Climate Change, and builds upon the commitments set forth in the Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas 2018–2030 and the PAHO Strategic Plan 2020–2025. The Agenda was developed in consultation with the Technical Advisory Group and through a consensus-driven decision-making process with Member States during the 2019–2020 period. Looking toward the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 3, the Agenda focuses on: improving the performance of environmental public health programs and institutions; fostering environmentally resilient and sustainable health systems; and promoting environmentally healthy and resilient cities and communities. Its implementation will be context-specific, based on the needs and realities of the countries. It will benefit countries and territories by promoting good governance practices, strengthening the leadership and coordination roles of the health sector, fostering cross-sectoral action, focusing on primary prevention, and enhancing evidence and communication. It will facilitate access to human, technical, and financial resources necessary to address environmental determinants of health and ensure that the Region is fully engaged in global health, environment, and climate change processes and agreements. The objective of the Agenda is to strengthen the capacity of health actors in the health and non-health sectors to address and adapt to environmental determinants of health (EDHs), prioritizing populations living in conditions of vulnerability, in order to meet Outcome 18 of the PAHO Strategic Plan 2020–2025 directly and several other outcomes of the Plan indirectly. To address and adapt to the challenges of EDHs in the Region, an integrated and evidence-informed approach within the health sector and across sectors will be needed, one enabled, and supported by good governance practices, adequate management mechanisms, high-level political will, and adequate human, technical, technological, and financial resources. more

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A Healthy Workforce: A Toolkit for HIV and AIDS Advocacy and Behaviour Change Communication in the Workplace

Academy for Educational Development (2005) C1

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The Cost of Doing Nothing: The Humanitarian Price of Climate Change and How it Can be Avoided

International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies (2019) C1

A new report by the world’s largest humanitarian network warns that the number of people needing humanitarian assistance every year as a result of climate-related disasters could double by 2050. It estimates that the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance as a result of storms, droug... more

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The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future

Romanello M., McGushin A., et al. (2021) C2

The Lancet Countdown is an international collaboration that independently monitors the health consequences of a changing climate. Publishing updated, new, and improved indicators each year, the Lancet Countdown represents the consensus of leading researchers from 43 academic institutions and UN ag... more

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Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change

Marselle M., Stadler J., Korn H., et al. (2019) CC

The biosphere underlies the whole sustainable development concept, as the layer on which society and the economy rely. Nature and biodiversity fuel the natural cycles and life-support systems of the planet, on which humanity ultimately depends.

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Hendra virus: Epidemiology dynamics in relation to climate change, diagnostic tests and control measures

Yuen K. Y.; Frase N. S.; et al (2021) C2

Hendra virus (HeV) continues to pose a serious public health concern as spillover events occur sporadically. Terminally ill horses can exhibit a range of clinical signs including frothy nasal discharge, ataxia or forebrain signs. Early signs, if detected, can include depression, inappetence, colic o... more

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Reducing the health and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) impacts of climate change: Setting the scene on health, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) response in a changing climate

IFRC; Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre (2021) CC

A new brief published by the IFRC and Climate Centre today details the adverse impacts of climate change on human health and provides more detail on the second of four pillars of action in the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement ambitions on climate.

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Heat Waves, Floods And The Health Impacts Of Climate Change

World Health Organization WHO (2010) C_WHO

Training Workshop

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Child labour report 2017 - The Neglected Link: effects of climate change and environmental degradation on child labour

Lisa Myers, Laura Theytaz-Bergman Terre des hommes (2017) C1

Over half a billion children are living in areas with extremely high levels of floods and nearly 160 million children live in areas of high or extremely high droughts. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 26% of the annual 6.6 million deaths of children under five are linked to environ... more

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Zoonosis emergence linked to agricultural intensification and environmental change

Jones B. A., Grace D. et al (2013) C2

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A v.110(21); 2013 May 21 PMC3666729 ; A systematic review was conducted by a multidisciplinary team to analyze qualitatively best available scientific evidence on the effect of agricultural intensification and environmental changes on the risk of zoonoses for which there are... more

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Urban Ecosystem-based Adaptation: Regreening Cities to Takle Climate Change

UN Enivronemnt Programme UNEP (2022) CC

Briefing Note 8. Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is a strategy for adapting to the adverse impacts of climate change by harnessing nature and the services it can provide. This strategy is crucial for cities and peri-urban areas, threatened by a multitude of climate hazards and home to more than ha... more

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Myanmar’s National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) to Climate Change

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry, National Environmental Conservation Committee (2012) C1

Sectors in which Priority Adaptation Projects should be implemented first include:
- 1) Agriculture, Early Warning Systems and Forest (First Priority Level Sectors). This is followed by:
- 2) Public Health and Water Resources (Second Priority Level Sectors);
- 3) Coastal Zone (Thir... more

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Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry

Penman, J.; et al. IPCC (2003) C1

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ACF – Sierra Leone Case Study: Community Led Ebola Management and Eradication (CLEME) - Trigger Behavioural Change to strengthen community’s resilience to Ebola Outbreaks

Action contre le Faim (2015)

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Planetary Health needs frequent monitoring of global environmental changes and global land cover and land use | InterAction Council

Inter Action Council (2021) C2

Planetary Health needs frequent monitoring of global environmental changes and global land cover and land use - Power Point presentation You can find the full text on the website (Source link)

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HIV Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors: Analysis of Change Over Time in Mainland Tanzania

Mmbaga, Elia John ICF International (2013) C2

DHS Working Papers No. 85

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Urban Health Initiative a model process for catalysing change - Clean cooking for health

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

Clean and sustainable household energy and appliances, for cooking, heating and lighting can improve health, increase productivity, reduce poverty and protect the environment while addressing air pollution.

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Urban Health Initiative a model process for catalysing change - Making health a priority in the design of air pollution-free cities

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

The Urban Health Initiative (UHI) goes beyond improving access to health care and promoting healthy behaviours, and focuses on how to build cities that enable and encourage good health.

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Education for children with disabilities in South Africa - What needs to change

Human Rights Watch (2015) C2

This report is about education for children with disabilities in South Africa.

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COVID-19 and Humanitarian Access: How the pandemic should provoke systemic change in the global humanitarian system

United Nations University (2021) CC

Recommendations and Summary This report explores the impact of COVID-19 on humanitarian access in the initial months of the crisis, including both the delivery of assistance and performance of protection activities. It examines the varying crisis responses, including the shift to a more localized a... more