Palmeiro-Silva, Yasna;
Aravena-Contreras, Raúl;
Izcue Gana, José;
González Tapia, Rocío;
Kelman, Ilan;
(2024)
Climate-related health impact indicators for public health surveillance in a changing climate: a systematic review and local suitability analysis.
The Lancet Regional Health - Americas
, 38
, Article 100854. 10.1016/j.lana.2024.100854.
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Abstract
Summary Climate change challenges public health. Effective management of climate-related health risks relies on robust public health surveillance (PHS) and population health indicators. Despite existing global and country-specific indicators, their integration into local PHS systems is limited, impacting decision-making. We conducted a systematic review examining population health indicators relevant to climate change impacts and their suitability for national PHS systems. Guided by a registered protocol, we searched multiple databases and included 41 articles. Of these, 35 reported morbidity indicators, and 39 reported mortality indicators. Using Chile as a case study, we identified three sets of indicators for the Chilean PHS. The high-priority set included vector-, food-, and water-borne diseases, as well as temperature-related health outcomes indicators due to their easy integration into existing PHS systems. This review highlights the importance of population health indicators in monitoring climate-related health impacts, emphasising the need for local contextual factors to guide indicator selection.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Climate-related health impact indicators for public health surveillance in a changing climate: a systematic review and local suitability analysis |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.lana.2024.100854 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2024.100854 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Climate change; Population health; Surveillance; Indicators; Health impacts |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Inst for Risk and Disaster Reduction |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10195248 |
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