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November - December, 2007 | Volume 6, Issue 6
Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the WHO
Recommendations to Mediate the Impact of Climate Change on Health
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- Unite behind an agreed policy to mitigate climate change on a sufficient scale and convince the world that humanity really is the most important species endangered by climate change.
- Meet the Millennium Development Goals to ensure countries have basic infrastructure in place--including essential health and emergency services.
- Implement the strengthened International Health Regulations to increase global health security and to equip the world to cope with the expected emergence of new diseases and changes in the distribution, or severity, of epidemic-prone diseases.
- Alleviate poverty through a frontal attack on the neglected tropical diseases.
- Include a health impact assessment as a mandatory component of all development projects.
- Strengthen international capacity to respond to natural disasters in anticipation of more frequent and more severe extreme weather events.
- Look after the welfare of women, especially in the developing world as evidence shows that women are the ones who take charge of relief efforts and reconstruction.
- Remember the strategic and persuasive power of scientific evidence at the policy level.
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