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GLOBAL HEALTH ACTION
Volume 5, Issue -, Pages 1-7Publisher
CO-ACTION PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v5i0.19295
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climate change; natural disasters; health; health systems; development; risk management
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Background: Hydro-meteorological disasters are the focus of this paper. The authors examine, to which extent climate change increases their frequency and intensity. Methods: Review of IPCC-projections of climate-change related extreme weather events and related literature on health effects. Results: Projections show that climate change is likely to increase the frequency, intensity, duration, and spatial distribution of a range of extreme weather events over coming decades. Conclusions: There is a need for strengthened collaboration between climate scientists, the health researchers and policy-makers as well as the disaster community to jointly develop adaptation strategies to protect human.
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