TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dhimal, Meghnath
A1  - Dhimal, Mandira Lamichhane
A1  - Pote-Shrestha, Raja Ram
A1  - Groneberg, Jan David Alexander
A1  - Kuch, Ulrich
T1  - Health-sector responses to address the impacts of climate change in Nepal
T2  - WHO South-East Asia journal of public health
N2  - Nepal is highly vulnerable to global climate change, despite its negligible emission of global greenhouse gases. The vulnerable climate-sensitive sectors identified in Nepal's National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) to Climate Change 2010 include agriculture, forestry, water, energy, public health, urbanization and infrastructure, and climate-induced disasters. In addition, analyses carried out as part of the NAPA process have indicated that the impacts of climate change in Nepal are not gender neutral. Vector-borne diseases, diarrhoeal diseases including cholera, malnutrition, cardiorespiratory diseases, psychological stress, and health effects and injuries related to extreme weather are major climate-sensitive health risks in the country. In recent years, research has been done in Nepal in order to understand the changing epidemiology of diseases and generate evidence for decision-making. Based on this evidence, the experience of programme managers, and regular surveillance data, the Government of Nepal has mainstreamed issues related to climate change in development plans, policies and programmes. In particular, the Government of Nepal has addressed climate-sensitive health risks. In addition to the NAPA report, several policy documents have been launched, including the Climate Change Policy 2011; the Nepal Health Sector Programme – Implementation Plan II (NHSP-IP 2) 2010–2015; the National Health Policy 2014; the National Health Sector Strategy 2015–2020 and its implementation plan (2016–2021); and the Health National Adaptation Plan (H-NAP): climate change and health strategy and action plan (2016–2020). However, the translation of these policies and plans of action into tangible action on the ground is still in its infancy in Nepal. Despite this, the health sector's response to addressing the impact of climate change in Nepal may be taken as a good example for other low- and middle-income countries.
KW  - adaptation plan
KW  - climate change
KW  - diarrhoeal disease
KW  - gender
KW  - public health
KW  - vector-borne disease
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46555
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-465555
SN  - 2304-5272
SN  - 2224-3151
N1  - WHO South-East Asia journal of public health is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
VL  - 6
IS  - 2
SP  - 9
EP  - 14
PB  - World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia
CY  - New Delhi
ER  -