"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..."