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Capacity of health systems to anticipate, mitigate and manage situations arising from natural and man-made hazards, including biological hazards.

Across Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon, a joint UN programme is already delivering results by strengthening migrant-inclusive health systems through a single, coordinated approach.

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Why climate action matters for healthy longevity

Climate change has long been associated with risks such as sea-level rise and biodiversity loss. Now it raises deeper questions of whether future generations will live not only longer lives, but healthier ones

World Economic Forum (WEF)
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Documents and publications
The Climate and Health Risk Index: Tracking climate change risk to health across national and subnational levels to prioritize adaptation investment

The purpose of the CHRI is to improve how climate change and health resources are invested.

World Bank, the
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Toolkit for applying a gender-transformative approach to women-led climate resilience

Practical toolkit guiding gender-transformative approaches to strengthen women’s leadership in climate resilience and disaster risk reduction.

Pathfinder.org
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Readying health facilities for climate-driven emergencies

This report examines how strengthening health facilities can enhance disaster risk reduction in the context of climate-driven emergencies, with a focus on safeguarding women’s health.

Pathfinder.org
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“Drowning in trauma”: mental health impacts of floods in overpopulated informal settlements in South Africa

This study assessed the impacts of recurring floods on the mental health of Setswetla informal settlement residents in Johannesburg, South Africa and a total of 100 adult residents participated in the study.

Natural Hazards (Springer)
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Toxic dust from California’s shrinking Salton Sea is harming children’s lung growth – our study tracked the impact in 700 kids

Southern California’s Salton Sea was once a resort playground, with sunny beaches, celebrities and people waterskiing on the vast inland lake in the 1950s and ’60s. Today, those resorts are long gone, replaced by a drying and increasingly toxic landscape.

Conversation Media Group, the
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Climate change and extreme heat: strengthening resilience and adaptive capacity in the Southern African development community (SADC)

The study responds to the transboundary nature of climate change amid high cross border movement of people, goods, and services and calls for cohesive climate planning across SADC member states.

Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)
A mother-of-four from the Aban Jotar village, Sindh, Pakistan cradles her toddler while her husband works in the nearby fields,
Research briefs
Extreme heat from climate change linked to smaller babies

Exposure to extreme heat conditions is resulting in more babies being born with low birth weight, according to a new study involving Adelaide University researchers.

University of Adelaide, the
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