GECHH

Global Environmental Change and Human Health

Completed


Type of Structure: program
Regional Scope: global
Parent Organisations: FutureEarth, ESSP
Child Organisations:
Duration : 2006 to 2020 COMPLETED
Contact Address: no office contact defined


General information and objectives

  • Identify and quantify health risks posed by GEC, now and in the reasonably foreseeable (scenario) future
    • Develop methods of modelling/understanding tradeoffs between economic development, environmental change and human health
    • Take account of the roles of culture, social institutions and technology choices in modulating health risks, affecting vulnerability and influencing policy response
  • Describe spatial (geographic, inter-population) and temporal differences in health risks, to better understand vulnerabilities and priorities for interventions
  • Develop adaptation strategies for reducing health risks, assess their cost-effectiveness, and communicate results (esp. to decision-makers)


These objectives will be achieved by articulating the implementation strategy for this Joint Project around the following integrated themes that examine the relationships between Global Environmental Change and Human Health:
  • Atmospheric composition changes and their health impacts
    • Climate change and health
    • Stratospheric ozone depletion and health
  • Land Use/Land Cover changes and human health issues
  • Infectious disease and Global Environmental Changes
    • Land use/land cover change and vector/rodent-borne infectious diseases
    • Changes in human-animal relationships and emergence/spread of zoonoses
    • Food-borne, water-borne and other infectious diseases
  • Food-producing systems and health
  • Urbanisation and health
  • Vulnerability and adaptability: formal assessment of the situational and constitutional susceptibility of the at-risk community or population, and of the social and institutional resources available for reducing that susceptibility and coping with adverse health impacts.


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Last update: 4/27/22
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)

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