ENBEL briefing: Climate change and child health
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Public health measures are needed to protect the health of current and future generations. In this policy brief, ENBEL, a European project aimed at connecting health and climate change research, focusses on the disproportional climate change impact on the health of children, who bear the greatest burder of climate-sensitive diseases, including diarrhoeal disease. The briefing summarises new findings from research in Africa and Asia, but also includes relevant insights and recommendations for European children.
The policy briefs can be consulted at ENBEL's website.
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The ENBEL project supports EU policy making by bringing together leaders in climate change and health research through a network of major international health and climate research projects under the Belmont Forum’s Collaborative Research Action (CRA), Societal Challenge 1 and 5 of EU’s Horizon 2020, and other national and international funding schemes. This network develops evidence syntheses and co-produces with stakeholders a series of tailor-made knowledge products. The key thematic focus is on environmental and occupational heat, air pollution (including from wildfires) and climate-sensitive infectious diseases, with specific attention given to high-risk groups and populations.
Published in Climate-ADAPT Feb 19 2024 - Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Apr 04 2024