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11. Public Health in Canada and Adaptation to Infectious Disease Risks of Climate Change: Are We Planning or Just Keeping Our Fingers Crossed?

verfasst von : Nicholas Hume Ogden, Paul Sockett, Manon Fleury

Erschienen in: Climate Change Adaptation in Developed Nations

Verlag: Springer Netherlands

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Climate change is expected to increase the health risks for Canadians from infectious diseases from our environment, including vector-borne, water-borne, and food-borne diseases. Adaptation efforts will be important to reduce the impact of these risks. Public health systems are in place in Canada to control many disease risks but there are still knowledge gaps on, and modifications needed to, existing approaches to protecting the population from endemic diseases and new or emerging pathogens. This chapter addresses five key questions on whether public health is on track to helping communities adapt to changing risks. The questions address adaptation to disease risk of climate change by exploring the following: assessments of disease risks, methods for adaptation, responsibility, resources, and public action and societal will. Overall, with these increasing risks to the health of Canadians, all sectors of society will need to participate in the adaptive response, while federal, provincial, and community public health bodies will need to work together to identify and communicate risk and promote and coordinate adaptation responses.

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Titel: Public Health in Canada and Adaptation to Infectious Disease Risks of Climate Change: Are We Planning or Just Keeping Our Fingers Crossed?
verfasst von: Nicholas Hume Ogden
Paul Sockett
Manon Fleury
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Buch: Climate Change Adaptation in Developed Nations
Print ISBN: 978-94-007-0566-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-94-007-0567-8

Copyright-Jahr: 2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0567-8_11