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Activities in the WHO European Region 2013–2014

Activities in the WHO European Region 2013–2014. James Creswick Technical Officer creswickj@who.int. Country support. Flooding in the Balkans: on-site country support provided to Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Series of flooding factsheets produced Health assessment of the flooding.

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Activities in the WHO European Region 2013–2014

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  1. Activities in the WHO European Region2013–2014 • James Creswick • Technical Officer • creswickj@who.int

  2. Country support • Flooding in the Balkans: on-site country support provided to Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. • Series of flooding factsheets produced • Health assessment of the flooding

  3. Country support: publications Protecting health from climate change : a seven-country initiativewww.euro.who.int/results-summary-of-seven-country-initiative Floods in the WHO European Region: health effects and their prevention(with Public Health England)www.euro.who.int/floods-in-the-who-european-region

  4. Country support: publications Climate change and health: a tool for estimating health and adaptation costswww.euro.who.int/climate-change-economic-tool Atlas of health and climate (WHO/WMO)www.who.int/globalchange/publications/atlas/en/ Integrated Health Information Portal (IHIP), including climate change

  5. Research IMPACT2C: Quantifying projected impacts under 2°C warming Uses modelling to assess effects on water, energy, infrastructure, coasts, tourism, forestry, agriculture, ecosystems services, and health and air www.hzg.de/mw/impact2c

  6. Research (cont.) RAMSES: Reconciling Adaptation, Mitigation and Sustainable Development for Cities Aims to deliver evidence of the impacts of climate change and costs and benefits of adaptation measures, focusing on cities www.ramses-cities.eu

  7. Research (cont.) EUPORIAS: European Provision Of Regional Impacts Assessments on Seasonal and Decadal Timescales Aims to assess key knowledge gaps of important sectors and develop a few prototype predictions systems www.euproias.eu

  8. Research & policy development Greening health systems: meeting held in August 2013 to discuss technical requirements and develop a roadmap UN Informal Interagency Task Team on Sustainable Procurement in the Health Sector (IIATT-SPHS)

  9. Policy development: WHD2014 World Health Day 2014: Vector-borne diseases Seven factsheets on: chikungunya, dengue, leishmaniasis, Lyme borreliosis*, malaria, tick-borne encephalitis*, West Nile virus Events at LHR and IAD www.euro.who.int/whd

  10. Policy development: UNFCCC COP19 in Warsaw: WHO supported the global Climate and Health Summit, hosted two side-events and a WHO exhibit SBSTA40/SBI40 in Bonn: WHO hosted a side-event on relevance of IPCC finding for health, and had an exhibit. COP 20, Lima and COP21, Paris

  11. Policy development: EHP Health in Climate Change (HIC) working group of the European Environment and Health Task Force (EHTF). Mid-Term Review (MTR) of the 2008 Parma commitments underway; conference in Israel, November 2014.

  12. Upcoming for 2014 • WHO Conference on Health and Climate, 27–29 August, 2014 • Enhance resilience and protect health from climate change. • Identify the health benefits associated with reducing greenhouse gas emissions. • Support health-promoting climate change policies.

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