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Climate change – a major issue for the WHO
Climate change is likely to weigh heavily on public health. And as always it is the poorest populations who will pay the heaviest toll.
With natural disasters, the “migration” northwards of diseases such as chikungunya fever, malaria and dengue fever to countries that had previously been free of such illnesses and increased mortality linked to food and water pollution, etc, the picture that awaits us in just a few years’ time is a gloomy one. Not to mention the large population movements that will result from rising sea levels and drought.
Fortunately, a large part of these risks can be avoided thanks to existing health and action programmes. Vaccinations, the laying on of water supplies and setting up of water treatment systems… these effective actions to combat the vectors of disease and to anticipate natural disasters play an important role. But it’s a matter of urgency. The faster we react the more significant the results will be and the lower the costs.
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