Recommedations by World Health Organisation for health authorities to deal with the impact of climate change:
Enhance awareness of climate vulnerability and change's potential impacts on health.
Enhance development of adaptation strategies, policies and measures to reduce potential impacts.
Address data needs, including the collection of more valid and comprehensive health, meteorological, environmental, socio-economic data at the appropriate local, regional and temporal scales.
Address high priority research questions, including expanding the knowledge of climate-sensitive diseases of importance to small island states through national and regional research; improving understanding of the complex relationships between the risks posed by climate variability and change and by other factors that influence population health.
Increase capacity building.
Develop and improve national and regional climate forecasts. In addition, create partnerships between climate/meteorology and public health/medical specialists to improve awareness of the use and uses of climate forecast information.
Address resource needs by improving international, national and regional facilities and funding for capacity building, interdisciplinary research and regional/national assessments.
