Climate change and health
Individual Documents
Description:
"Improving the health status of Myanmar?s
population remains a challenge as current efforts
are impeded by poverty and malnutrition in rural
areas, inadequate hygiene and sanitation, and
limited health care access in remote locations.
Myanmar is prone to natural hazards and has been
recently ranked as the second-most vulnerable
country to weather-related extreme events. Latest
climate change projections suggest that in future,
climate hazards like extreme temperatures, floods
and storm surges, will have significant implications
for health in the absence of adequate climate
risk management, health and social protection
systems.
The potential health risks from climate change
include: increase of waterborne and vector-borne
diseases, heat-related illnesses, injuries and deaths,
food insecurity and increased malnutrition. The
poor, women, children and the elderly, as well as
communities living in remote high-risk areas are
most vulnerable..."
Source/publisher:
Myanmar Climate Change Alliance
Date of publication:
2017-10-00
Date of entry/update:
2018-01-19
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Description:
"Ecologically diverse, Myanmar has abundant
water resources, species-rich coastal ecosystems
and large forest reserves. However, population
and economic growth and unsustainable use of
natural resources are driving forces of ongoing
environmental degradation which curb the ability
of ecosystems to provide services and respond to
shocks.
Environmental impacts of climate change in
Myanmar are far-reaching: increased risk of forest
fires, plant pests and diseases, and desertification,
particularly in the Central Dry Zone, due to droughts
and extreme temperatures; loss of vegetation in
mountain regions as result of rapid-onset events
such as floods and landslides; and destruction of
coastal ecosystems due to strong cyclones, among
others.
Although the country has a significant carbon
sequestration capacity, high deforestation rates
remain a critical issue. One of Myanmar?s major
challenges ahead is to enhance the carbon sink
potential of its forests which can also help generate
other co-benefits such as adaptation..."
Source/publisher:
Myanmar Climate Change Alliance
Date of publication:
2017-10-00
Date of entry/update:
2018-01-19
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Individual Documents
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